Molecular mechanism of heme signaling in yeast: The transcriptional activator Hap1 serves as the key mediator

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 415-426

  Zhang, L ^a   Hach, A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hap1; Heme signaling; Oxygen sensing; Transcriptional regulation; Yeast Rox1

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEME; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEME SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN TENSION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST; YEAST CELL;

ANAEROBIOSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HEME; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; OXYGEN; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; YEASTS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032729833     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000180050442     Document Type: Review

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