The integration of nitrogen and carbon catabolite repression in Aspergillus nidulans requires the GATA factor AreA and an additional positive-acting element, ADA

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2937-2944

  Gonzalez, Ramon ^a   Gavrias, Victoria ^b   Gomez, Dennis ^a   Scazzocchio, Claudio ^a   Cubero, Beatriz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b Building 300   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbon catabolite repression; Nitrogen metabolite repression; Transcriptional control

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; FUNGAL PROTEIN; NITROGEN; PROLINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; STRUCTURAL GENE;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CARBON; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITROGEN; PROLINE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

EID: 0030981454     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.10.2937     Document Type: Article

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