An Aspergillus nidulans nuclear protein, AnCP, involved in enhancement of Taka-amylase A gene expression, binds to the CCAAT-containing taaG2, amdS, and gatA promoters

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 254, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 119-126

  Kato, M ^a   Aoyama, A ^a   Naruse, F ^a   Kobayashi, T ^a   Tsukagoshi, N ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspergillus; CCAAT; Footprint; Nuclear protein; Taka amylase A

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; STARCH;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALPHA-AMYLASE; AMIDOHYDROLASES; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEINS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

EID: 0030964802     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050399     Document Type: Article

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