Responses of four yeast genes to changes in the transcriptional machinery are determined by their promoters

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 1828-1832

  Cheng, Jason X ^a   Floer, Monique ^a   Ononaji, Paul ^a   Bryant, Gene ^a   Ptashne, Mark ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYXOGASTRIA;

ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PROMOTER REGION;

GENES, FUNGAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0037195255     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01257-5     Document Type: Article

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