Protein-DNA interactions in the promoter region of the Phycomyces carB and carRA genes correlate with the kinetics of their mRNA accumulation in response to light

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 773-781

  Sanz, Catalina ^a   Benito, Ernesto P ^a   Orejas, Margarita ^b   Álvarez, María Isabel ^a   Eslava, Arturo P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE AGROQUÍMICA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE ALIMENTOS CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carotenoid mutants; Carotenoids; Electrophoretic mobility shift assay; Photoinduction; Phototropic mutants; Phycomyces blakesleeanus; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

CAROTENE; GENOMIC DNA; LYCOPENE; LYCOPENE CYCLASE; MESSENGER RNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHYTOENE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN CARB; PROTEIN CARRA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; ISOMERASE; LYCOPENE CYCLASE-ISOMERASE; PHYTOENE DEHYDROGENASE; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC REGULATION; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; MYCELIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOTROPHY; PHYCOMYCES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; WILD TYPE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RADIATION RESPONSE; RNA STABILITY;

PHYCOMYCES; PHYCOMYCES BLAKESLEEANUS;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; BASE SEQUENCE; DOWN-REGULATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GERANYLGERANYL-DIPHOSPHATE GERANYLGERANYLTRANSFERASE; INTRAMOLECULAR LYASES; KINETICS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYCOMYCES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA STABILITY; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 77955278174     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2010.05.009     Document Type: Article

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