The NC2 repressor is dispensable in yeast mutated for the Sin4p component of the holoenzyme and plays roles similar to Mot1p in vivo

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 163-173

  Lemaire, Marc ^a   Xie, Jun ^b   Meisterernst, Michael ^b   Collart, Martine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HOLOENZYME; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINOHYDROLASES; DNA HELICASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HYDRO-LYASES; MUTATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PYROPHOSPHATASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TATA BOX; TATA-BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0034074716     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01839.x     Document Type: Article

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