Cloning, characterisation and regulation of the ornithine transaminase (otaA) gene of Aspergillus nidulans

Current Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 118-126

  Dzikowska, A ^a,c   Swianiewicz, M ^a   Talarczyk, A ^a   Wisniewska, M ^a   Goras, M ^a   Scazzocchio, C ^b   Weglenski, P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

AREA; Carbon catabolite repression; CREA; Nitrogen metabolite repression

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ORNITHINE OXOACID AMINOTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; COSMID; DNA BINDING; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LIBRARY; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORNITHINE-OXO-ACID TRANSAMINASE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; VIGNA ACONITIFOLIA;

EID: 0032997987     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050440     Document Type: Article

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