Cross regulation of four GATA factors that control nitrogen catabolic gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3416-3429

  Coffman, Jonathan A ^a   Rai, Rajendra ^a   Loprete, Darlene M ^b   Cunningham, Thomas ^a   Svetlov, Vladimir ^a   Cooper, Terrance G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b RHODES COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; NITROGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030944694     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.11.3416-3429.1997     Document Type: Article

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