Roles in dimerization and blue light photoresponse of the PAS and LOV domains of Neurospora crassa white collar proteins

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 719-729

  Ballario, Paola ^a   Talora, Claudio ^a   Galli, Daniela ^a   Linden, Hartmut ^a,b   Macino, Giuseppe ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIMERIZATION; MUTANT; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHENOTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 0031880316     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00955.x     Document Type: Article

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