The function of CreA, the carbon catabolite repressor of Aspergillus nidulans, is regulated at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional level

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 169-178

  Strauss, Joseph ^a   Horvath, Henny K ^a   Abdallah, Basem M ^a   Kindermann, Johanna ^a   Mach, Robert L ^a   Kubicek, Christian P ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; MONOSACCHARIDE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

EID: 0032910571     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01341.x     Document Type: Article

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