The SAGA of Spt proteins and transcriptional analysis in yeast: Past, present, and future

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 63, Issue , 1998, Pages 553-561

  Winston, F ^a   Sudarsanam, P ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; SUPPRESSOR FACTOR; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE GCN5; SWI/SNF RELATED MATRIX ASSOCIATED ACTIN DEPENDENT REGULATOR OF CHROMATIN SUBFAMILY B MEMBER 1; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SAGA;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ADA4 GENE; BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; SPT GENE; SUC2 GENE; TRANSPOSON; YEAST;

EID: 0032450775     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1998.63.553     Document Type: Conference Paper

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