Identification and analysis of homologues of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Spt3 suggest conserved functional domains

Yeast

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 409-417

  Madison, Jon M ^a   Winston, Fred ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Clavispora opuntiae; Kluyveromyces lactis; Schizosaccharomyces pombe; SPT3 sequences; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; KLUYVEROMYCES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; KLUYVEROMYCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CLAVISPORA OPUNTIAE; FUNGI; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032579780     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(19980330)14:5<409::AID-YEA237>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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