Gcn4p, a master regulator of gene expression, is controlled at multiple levels by diverse signals of starvation and stress

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 22-32

  Hinnebusch, Alan G ^a   Natarajan, Krishnamurthy ^a,b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GCN2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MAMMALS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036463655     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.01.1.22-32.2002     Document Type: Short Survey

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