The bZIP transcription factor MeaB mediates nitrogen metabolite repression at specific loci

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1588-1601

  Wagner, Dominik ^a   Schmeinck, Anne ^a   Mos, Magdalena ^b   Morozov, Igor Y ^b   Caddick, Mark X ^b   Tudzynski, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BIKAVERIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MEAB PROTEIN, EMERICELLA NIDULANS; NITROGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; XANTHONE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; FUSARIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; NITROGEN; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XANTHONES;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI;

EID: 77957818583     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00146-10     Document Type: Article

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