Conservation of glutamine-rich transactivation function between yeast and humans

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2774-2782

  Escher, Dominik ^a   Bodmer Glavas, Morana ^a   Barberis, Alcide ^a   Schaffner, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TAFII110; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GLUTAMINE; HOST CELL FACTOR C1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-1; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SP1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0034110941     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.8.2774-2782.2000     Document Type: Article

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