Nitrogen catabolite repression-sensitive transcription as a readout of Tor pathway regulation: The genetic background, reporter gene and GATA factor assayed determine the outcomes

Genetics

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 861-874

  Georis, Isabelle ^a   Feller, André ^a   Tate, Jennifer J ^b   Cooper, Terrance G ^b   Dubois, Evelyne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATASE SIT 4; PROTEIN GAT 1; PROTEIN GLN 3; PROTEIN GZF 3; RAPAMYCIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; GAT 1 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GLN 3 GENE; GZF 3 GENE; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPORTER GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIT 4 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DOWN-REGULATION; GATA TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NITROGEN; PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIROLIMUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 62549113091     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.099051     Document Type: Article

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