Identification of target sites of the α2-Mcm1 repressor complex in the yeast genome

Genome Research

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1040-1047

  Zhong, Hualin ^a   McCord, Ron ^a   Vershon, Andrew K ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLONING; DNA BINDING; GENOME; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

BINDING SITES; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MCM1 PROTEIN; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032723678     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.9.11.1040     Document Type: Article

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