Tailor-made zinc-finger transcription factors activate FLO11 gene expression with phenotypic consequences in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Shieh, Jia Ching ^a,b   Cheng, Yu Che ^a   Su, Mao Chang ^c   Moore, Michael ^b   Choo, Yen ^b,d   Klug, Aaron ^b  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d Plasticell Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN FLO11; PROTEIN VP16; PROTEIN VP64; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; HAPLOIDY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WILD TYPE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 40749143960     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000746     Document Type: Article

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