Sequence, exon-intron organization, transcription and mutational analysis of prnA, the gene encoding the transcriptional activator of the prn gene cluster in Aspergillus nidulans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 355-370

  Cazelle, Béatrice ^a   Pokorska, Anna ^a   Hull, Elizabeth ^b,c   Green, Peter M ^b,c   Stanway, Glyn ^b   Scazzocchio, Claudio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c Paediatric Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; EXONS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0031943541     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00801.x     Document Type: Review

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