Activator-independent transcription of Snf1-dependent genes in mutants lacking histone tails

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 407-422

  Infante, Juan J ^b   Law, G Lynn ^c   Wang, I Ting ^d   Chang, Hsin Wen Ella ^e   Young, Elton T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Doctor Duarte de Acosta   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN SNF1; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADH2 GENE; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REG1 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HISTONES; MUTANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79953836180     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07583.x     Document Type: Article

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