Metal-Responsive Transcription Factors That Regulate Iron, Zinc, and Copper Homeostasis in Eukaryotic Cells

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-13

  Rutherford, Julian C ^a   Bird, Amanda J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; FUNGAL PROTEIN; IRON; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SHORT SURVEY;

COPPER; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHENOTYPE; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 1242277806     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.3.1.1-13.2004     Document Type: Short Survey

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