Expression studies and promoter analysis of the nuclear gene for mitochondrial transcription factor 1 (MTF1) in yeast

Current Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 37-48

  Jan, Pey Shynan ^a   Stein, Torsten ^a   Hehl, Stanetta ^a   Lisowsky, Thomas ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heterologous gene expression; Mitochondrial transcription; Regulation; Specificity factor MTF1; Yeast

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T3; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANTIBODIES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; KLUYVEROMYCES; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032880464     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050470     Document Type: Article

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