Regulation of the expression of the Kluyveromyces lactis PDC1 gene: Carbon source-responsive elements and autoregulation

Yeast

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 361-370

  Destruelle, Monika ^a   Menghini, Rossella ^a   Frontali, Laura ^a   Bianchi, Michele M ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autoregulation; Kluyveromyces lactis; Promoter analysis; Pyruvate decarboxylase

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; GLUCOSE; PYRUVATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; KLUYVEROMYCES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLUCOSE; HOMEOSTASIS; KLUYVEROMYCES; LAC OPERON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PYRUVATE DECARBOXYLASE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; KLUYVEROMYCES; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033616922     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(19990330)15:5<361::AID-YEA378>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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