Sre1, an iron-modulated GATA DNA-binding protein of iron-uptake genes in the fungal pathogen Histoplasma capsulatum

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 27, 2008, Pages 7274-7283

  Chao, Lily Y ^b   Marletta, Michael A ^a,c   Rine, Jasper ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA; GENE ENCODING; GENES; IRON; METAL ANALYSIS; METALS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; TRANSCRIPTION; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

(E ,3E) PROCESS; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PATHOGENS; IRON ACQUISITION; IRON UPTAKE; NEGATIVE REGULATORS; PATHOGENIC FUNGUS; PATHOGENIC ORGANISMS; PROMOTER SEQUENCES; SEQUENCE SIMILARITY; SIDEROPHORE;

IRON ANALYSIS;

CYSTEINE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FERRIC ION; FUNGAL PROTEIN; IRON; PROTEIN SRE1; SIDEROPHORE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; IRON TRANSPORT; MACROPHAGE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SRE1 GENE; SURVIVAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION REPRESSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GATA TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HISTOPLASMA; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ZINC; ZINC FINGERS;

AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; FUNGI;

EID: 46849120759     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi800066s     Document Type: Article

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