AnCF, the CCAAT binding complex of Aspergillus nidulans, is essential for the formation of a DNase I-hypersensitive site in the 5' region of the amdS gene

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 6523-6531

  Narendja, Frank M ^a   Davis, Meryl A ^a   Hynes, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

EID: 0032860817     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.10.6523     Document Type: Article

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