Delta sequence of Ty1 transposon can initiate transcription of the distal part of the URA2 gene complex in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 69-74

  Roelants, F ^a,b   Potier, S ^a   Souciet, J L ^a   De Montigny, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aspartate transcarbamylase (ATCase); RT PCR; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Ty retrotransposon

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0031104680     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00015-3     Document Type: Article

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