A 368-base-pair cis-acting HWP1 promoter region, HCR, of Candida albicans confers hypha-specific gene regulation and binds architectural transcription factors Nhp6 and Gcf1p

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 693-709

  Kim, Samin ^a   Wolyniak, Michael J ^a   Staab, Janet F ^b,c,d   Sundstrom, Paula ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; HISTONE; HWP1 PROTEIN, CANDIDA ALBICANS; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING COMPETITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; REPORTER GENE; TRANSACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HISTONES; HYPHAE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 34247892294     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00341-06     Document Type: Article

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