Sporulation-specific expression of the yeast DIT1/DIT2 promoter is controlled by a newly identified repressor element and the short form of Rim101p

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 258, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 430-436

  Bogengruber, Edith ^a   Eichberger, Thomas ^a   Briza, Peter ^a   Dawes, Ian W ^b   Breitenbach, Michael ^a   Schricker, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Spore wall formation; Sporulation; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRANSFECTION;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032401615     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1998.2580430.x     Document Type: Article

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