The penicillin regulator PENR1 of Aspergillus nidulans is a HAP-like transcriptional complex

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 251, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 758-767

  Litzka, Olivier ^a   Papagiannopolous, Peter ^b   Davis, Meryl A ^b   Hynes, Michael J ^b   Brakhage, Axel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aspergillus nidulans; CCAAT binding protein; HAP transcription complex; Penicillin biosynthesis; PENR1

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN G;

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PENICILLINS; PLASMIDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032005248     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1998.2510758.x     Document Type: Article

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