The Tor pathway regulates gene expression by linking nutrient sensing to histone acetylation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 629-635

  Rohde, John R ^a   Cardenas, Maria E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ABF1; PROTEIN ESA1; PROTEIN RPD3; RAP PROTEIN; RAPAMYCIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ACETYLATION; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATIN; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HISTONES; MODELS, GENETIC; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIROLIMUS; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0037223438     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.2.629-635.2003     Document Type: Article

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