Functional analysis of different regions of the positive-acting CYS3 regulatory protein of Neurospora crassa

Current Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 395-405

  Coulter, Kristin R ^a   Marzluf, George A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CYS3 protein; Neurospora; Sulfur regulation; Transcriptional activation domains

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CELL PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PERMEASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SERINE; SULFUR; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOSOL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 0031870828     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050352     Document Type: Article

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