Functional characterization of the fission yeast Start-specific transcription factor Res2

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1023-1034

  Zhu, Yan ^b   Takeda, Tadayuki ^a,b   Whitehall, Simon ^b   Peat, Nigel ^b   Jones, Nic ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Meiosis; Res1; Res2; Start

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN; ANTIBODY; DIMER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DIMERIZATION; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; MEIOSIS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0031041256     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.5.1023     Document Type: Article

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