Functional dissection of yeast Hir1p, a WD repeat-containing transcriptional corepressor

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 657-667

  DeSilva, Heshani ^a   Lee, Kenneth ^a   Osley, Mary Ann ^a,b  

^a Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TRANSDUCIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN HIR1P; GENE PRODUCT; HISTONE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REPRESSOR GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HISTONES; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031886352     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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