Maximal stimulation of meiotic recombination by a yeast transcription factor requires the transcription activation domain and a DNA-binding domain

Genetics

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 101-115

  Kirkpatrick, David T ^a   Fan, Qingqing ^b   Petes, Thomas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOIDY; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; YEAST;

ACTINS; ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINOHYDROLASES; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DIPLOIDY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE PRODUCTS, VPR; HAPLOIDY; MEIOSIS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PLASMIDS; PYROPHOSPHATASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032948105     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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