AnCF, the CCAAT binding complex of Aspergillus nidulans, contains products of the hapB, hapC, and hapE genes and is required for activation by the pathway-specific regulatory gene amdR

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 99-106

  Steidl, Stefan ^a,b,c   Papagiannopoulos, Peter ^a   Litzka, Olivier ^b   Andrianopoulos, Alex ^a   Davis, Meryl A ^a   Brakhage, Axel A ^b,c   Hynes, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS;

EID: 0032947178     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.19.1.99     Document Type: Article

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