The short-lived matα2 transcriptional repressor is protected from degradation in vivo by interactions with its compressors Tup1 and Ssn6

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 371-380

  Laney, Jeffrey D ^a   Mobley, Erika F ^a   Hochstrasser, Mark ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEASOME; PROTEIN DEG1; PROTEIN MATALPHA2; PROTEIN SSN6; PROTEIN TUP1; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYC8 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; DEG1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MATA2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TUP1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; UBIQUITINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 33645221513     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.26.1.371-380.2006     Document Type: Article

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