A single amino acid, outside the AlcR zinc binuclear cluster, is involved in DNA binding and in transcriptional regulation of the alc genes in Aspergillus nidulans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1115-1124

  Nikolaev, Igor ^a   Cochet, Marie Françoise ^a   Lenouvel, François ^a,b   Felenbok, Béatrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMINO ACID; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL DNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; STRUCTURAL GENE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARGININE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ETHANOL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PLASMIDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZINC;

ALCA; ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0033026766     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01250.x     Document Type: Article

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