Transcriptional regulation of meiosis in budding yeast

International Review of Cytology

Volumn 224, Issue , 2003, Pages 111-171

  Kassir, Yona ^a   Adir, Noam ^a   Boger Nadjar, Elisabeth ^a   Guttmann Raviv, Noga ^a   Rubin Bejerano, Ifat ^b   Sagee, Shira ^a   Shenhar, Galit ^c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Glucose; Meiosis; Nitrogen; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Signal transduction pathways; Transcriptional activation; Transcriptional repression and silencing

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CELL PROTEIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; NITROGEN; PROTEIN IME1; PROTEIN IME2; PROTEIN NDT80; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; BUDDING; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DIPLOIDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MATING; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0038414740     PISSN: 00747696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-7696(05)24004-4     Document Type: Review

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