In vivo analyses of upstream promoter sequence elements in the 5 S rRNA gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 269, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 676-683

  Lee, Yoon ^a   Wong, William M ^a   Guyer, David ^a   Erkine, Alexander M ^a   Nazar, Ross N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

5 S rRNA; Gene expression; Promoter; Yeast

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; RNA 5S;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

EID: 0031588005     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1071     Document Type: Article

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