Replacement of a conserved tyrosine by tryptophan in Gal3p of Saccharomyces cerevisiae reduces constitutive activity: Implications for signal transduction in the GAL regulon

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 274, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 384-393

  Lakshminarasimhan, Anirudha ^a   Bhat, Paike Jayadeva ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Conserved tyrosine; Fine regulation; Galactose recognition; GHMP kinases; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INDUCED MUTATION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULON; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; GALACTOSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 27844518782     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-005-0031-6     Document Type: Article

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