Identification and functional analysis of a Kluyveromyces lactis homologue of the SPT4 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Current Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 375-378

  Hikkel, Imrich ^a   Gbelská, Yvetta ^a   Šubík, Július ^a  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Suppression; Transcription elongation; Yeast

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; KLUYVEROMYCES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; KLUYVEROMYCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

FUNGI; KLUYVEROMYCES; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032423725     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050409     Document Type: Article

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