Mutations of the RAG3 gene encoding a regulator of fermentation in Kluyveromyces lactis are suppressed by a mutation of the transcription factor gene KlGCR1

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 675-682

  Tizzani, Lorenza ^a   Wésolowski Louvel, Micheline ^c,d,e,f   Forte, Valentina ^a   Romitelli, Federica ^a,b   Salani, Francesca ^a   Lemaire, Marc ^c,d,e,f   Neil, Helen ^c,d,e,f   Bianchi, Michele M ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CCS Hospital   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^f CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Genetic suppressor; Pyruvate decarboxylase; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERMENTATION; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GLYCOLYSIS; KLGCR1-1 GENE; KLPDC1 GENE; KLUYVEROMYCES; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RAG3 GENE; SCK1 GENE;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FERMENTATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; KLUYVEROMYCES; MUTATION; PYRUVATE DECARBOXYLASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS;

EID: 34447299978     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2007.00219.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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