Saccharomyces cerevisiae Med9 comprises two functionally distinct domains that play different roles in transcriptional regulation

Genes to Cells

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-67

  Takahashi, Hiroyuki ^a   Kasahara, Koji ^a   Kokubo, Tetsuro ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN MED4; PROTEIN MED7; PROTEIN MED9; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS MUTANT; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 58049148970     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2008.01250.x     Document Type: Article

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