Cognate Site Identifier analysis reveals novel binding properties of the Sex Inducer homeodomain proteins of Cryptococcus neoformans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1334-1347

  Stanton, Brynne C ^a   Giles, Steven S ^a   Kruzel, Emilia K ^a   Warren, Christopher L ^a   Ansari, Aseem Z ^a   Hull, Christina M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Laboratory Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SXI1ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SXI2A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL TYPE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGUS SPORE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA, FUNGAL; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 66949111397     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06719.x     Document Type: Article

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