Design and Isolation of Temperature-sensitive Mutants of Gal4 in Yeast and Drosophila

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 370, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 939-950

  Mondal, Kajari ^a   Dastidar, Antara Ghosh ^a   Singh, Guramrit ^a   Madhusudhanan, S ^a   Gande, Santosh Lakshmi ^a   VijayRaghavan, K ^b   Varadarajan, Raghavan ^a,c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

design; Drosophila; temperature sensitive; transferability; yeast

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; MUTANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REPORTER GENE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; YEAST;

EID: 34250190268     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.05.035     Document Type: Article

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