Functional analysis of the transcriptional activator XlnR from Aspergillus niger

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1367-1375

  Hasper, Alinda A ^a   Trindade, Luisa M ^a   van der Veen, Douwe ^a   van Ooyen, Albert J J ^a   de Graaff, Leo H ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DATA BASE; DELETION MUTANT; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE LOCATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR IMPORT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER;

EID: 2942620277     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26557-0     Document Type: Article

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