In vivo studies of upstream regulatory cis-acting elements of the alcR gene encoding the transactivator of the ethanol regulon in Aspergillus nidulans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 123-131

  Mathieu, Martine ^a   Fillinger, Sabine ^a,b   Felenbok, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; GENE MAPPING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; START CODON; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ETHANOL; FEEDBACK; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULON; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

EID: 0034091130     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01833.x     Document Type: Article

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