A genetic screen identifies mutations in the yeast WAR1 gene, linking transcription factor phosphorylation to weak-acid stress adaptation

FEBS Journal

Volumn 274, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3094-3107

  Gregori, Christa ^a   Bauer, Bettina ^a   Schwartz, Chantal ^a,b   Kren, Angelika ^a,c   Schüller, Christoph ^a,d   Kuchler, Karl ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c Department of Clinical and Biological Research ^*  (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

ABC transporter; Stress response; Weak organic acids; Yeast; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ACID; DNA; PROTEIN PDR12P; SORBIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR WAR1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITY; ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MUTANT; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; WILD TYPE; YEAST;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SORBIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 34249780859     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2007.05837.x     Document Type: Article

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