Defects in yeast RNA polymerase II transcription elicit hypersensitivity to G1 arrest induced by Kluyveromyces lactis zymocin

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 268, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 49-55

  Kitamoto, H ^a   Jablonowski, D ^b   Nagase, J ^a   Schaffrath, R ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kluyveromyces lactis killer yeast Zymocin; RNA polymerase II; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; TOT Elongator

Indexed keywords

HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; KLUYVEROMYCES; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; G1 PHASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; KLUYVEROMYCES; MUTATION; MYCOTOXINS; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

KLUYVEROMYCES; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0036384945     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-002-0720-3     Document Type: Article

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