Repression of the yeast HO gene by the MATα2 and MATa1 homeodomain proteins

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 6469-6478

  Mathias, Jonathan R ^b,c   Hanlon, Sean E ^b,d   O'Flanagan, Ruadhan A ^a   Sengupta, Anirvan M ^a   Vershon, Andrew K ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN MAT ALPHA 2; PROTEIN MATA1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE LOSS; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HAPLOIDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST CELL;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL CYCLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 13544270247     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh985     Document Type: Article

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