Role of a white collar-1-white collar-2 complex in blue-light signal transduction

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 4961-4968

  Talora, C ^a   Franchi, L ^a,b   Linden, H ^c   Ballario, P ^a   Macino, G ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blue light; Dimerization; Phosphorylation; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

DIMER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGHT; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; DARKNESS; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FUNGAL; LIGHT; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHOSPHORYLATION; RABBITS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 0033568490     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.18.4961     Document Type: Article

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