A DNA-binding protein from Candida albicans that binds to the RPG box of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the telomeric repeat sequence of C. albicans

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 417-427

  Ishii, Nobuya ^a   Yamamoto, Mutumi ^a   Lahm, Hans Werner ^b   Iizumi, Shinnji ^a   Yoshihara, Fumie ^a   Nakayama, Hironobu ^a   Arisawa, Mikio ^a   Aoki, Yuhko ^a  

^a NIPPON ROCHE RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^b F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Nuclear protein; RPG box; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031052530     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-2-417     Document Type: Article

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