Roles of the Aspergillus nidulans homologues of Tup1 and Ssn6 in chromatin structure and cell viability

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 289, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 146-154

  García, Irene ^a,b   Mathieu, Martine ^b   Nikolaev, Igor ^b,d   Felenbok, Béatrice ^b   Scazzocchio, Claudio ^b,c  

^a CSIC JA USE Centro de Investigaciones Cientificas Isla de la Cartuja CICIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Genencor   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aspergillus nidulans; Carbon catabolite repression; Chromatin; RcoA; SsnF

Indexed keywords

CATABOLITE CONTROL PROTEIN A;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; WILD TYPE;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

EID: 56649109489     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01379.x     Document Type: Article

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