The Schizosaccharomyces pombe mei4+ gene encodes a meiosis-specific transcription factor containing a forkhead DNA-binding domain

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 2118-2129

  Horie, S ^a,c   Watanabe, Y ^b,d   Tanaka, K ^a,e   Nishiwaki, S ^a,f   Fujioka, H ^a,g   Abe, H ^a   Yamamoto, M ^b   Shimoda, C ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TAKARA SHUZO CO LTD   (Japan)

^d IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f ASTELLAS PHARMA INC   (Japan)

^g ASAHI BREWERIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPOROGENESIS;

FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0031954630     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.18.4.2118     Document Type: Article

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