Novel basic-region helix-loop-helix transcription factor (AnBH1) of Aspergillus nidulans counteracts the CCAAT-binding complex AnCF in the promoter of a penicillin biosynthesis gene

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 323, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 425-439

  Caruso, Maria Louise ^a   Litzka, Olivier ^a   Martic, Goran ^a   Lottspeich, Friedrich ^b   Brakhage, Axel A ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

AnBH1; Aspergillus nidulans; bHLH; CCAAT; Penicillin biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

CCAAT BINDING FACTOR; DIMER; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; PENICILLIN G;

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPRESSOR GENE;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 0036404883     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)00965-8     Document Type: Article

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