Repression of ergosterol biosynthesis is essential for stress resistance and is mediated by the Hog1 MAP kinase and the Mot3 and Rox1 transcription factors

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1008-1023

  Montañés, Fernando Martínez ^a   Pascual Ahuir, Amparo ^a   Proft, Markus ^a  

^a Universitat Politècnica de València   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERGOSTEROL; FLUCONAZOLE; HOG1 MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; LANOSTEROL; MENADIONE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ECM22; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ERG11; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ERG2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ERG25; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ERG6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ERG9; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MOT3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ROX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR UPC2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SALT STRESS; STEROL SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

ERGOSTEROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79551675397     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07502.x     Document Type: Article

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