Cellular Differentiation in Response to Nutrient Availability: The Repressor of Meiosis, Rme1p, Positively Regulates Invasive Growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genetics

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1045-1058

  Van Dyk, Dewald ^a   Hansson, Guy ^a   Pretorius, Isak S ^a,b   Bauer, Florian F ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b AUSTRALIAN WINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GLUCAN 1,4 ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; RECOMBINANT DNA; RME1P PROTEIN; STARCH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA BINDING; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLO11 GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MEIOSIS; MUC1 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STA2 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA PRIMERS; MEIOSIS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLASMIDS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0346361873     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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