The WD protein Cpc2p is required for repression of Gcn4 protein activity in yeast in the absence of amino-acid starvation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 807-822

  Hoffmann, Bernd ^a   Mösch, Hans Ulrich ^a   Sattlegger, Evelyn ^b   Barthelmess, Ilse Babette ^c   Hinnebusch, Alan ^b   Braus, Gerhard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACETATES; ACTINS; AMINO ACIDS; AMITROLE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; CYTOCHROMES C; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE; GROWTH; HYDRO-LYASES; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE; LAC OPERON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA; PROTEIN KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS;

NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0032939024     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01219.x     Document Type: Article

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