Functional diversity of silencers in budding yeasts

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 548-557

  Sjöstrand, Jimmy O O ^a   Kegel, Andreas ^a   Åström, Stefan U ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KLUYVEROMYCES; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; REB1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; KLUYVEROMYCES; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; KLUYVEROMYCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0036690294     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.1.4.548-557.2002     Document Type: Article

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