Molecular cloning of Gaf1, a Schizosaccharomyces pombe GATA factor, which can function as a transcriptional activator

Gene

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 319-328

  Hoe, Kwang Lae ^a   Won, Mi Sun ^a   Chung, Kyung Sook ^a   Park, Seung Kiel ^a   Kim, Dong Uk ^a   Jang, Young Joo ^a   Yoo, Ook Joon ^b   Yoo, Hyang Sook ^a  

^a Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Degenerate PCR; GATA binding; S. pombe; Transcription factor; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL VIABILITY; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPORTER GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TRANSACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ERYTHROID-SPECIFIC DNA-BINDING FACTORS; GATA1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032581725     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00301-1     Document Type: Article

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