Isolation and characterization of a new gene, sre, which encodes a GATA-type regulatory protein that controls iron transport in Neurospora crassa

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 259, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 532-540

  Zhou, L W ^a   Haas, H ^b   Marzluf, G A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

GATA factors; Iron regulation; Neurospora; Siderophores

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL DNA; IRON; MESSENGER RNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SIDEROPHORE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE ISOLATION; INTRON; IRON TRANSPORT; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PENICILLIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; USTILAGO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GATA TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENES, FUNGAL; INTRONS; IRON; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PERCHLORIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIDEROPHORES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PENICILLIUM; USTILAGO;

EID: 0031686444     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050845     Document Type: Article

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