Two short regions of the promoter are essential for activation and repression of the nitrate reductase gene in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 268, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 42-48

  Loppes, R ^a   Radoux, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; Nitrate reductase; Promoter; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

NITRATE REDUCTASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME REPRESSION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, REPORTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0036384890     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-002-0719-9     Document Type: Article

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