Activity of the yeast zinc-finger transcription factor War1 is lost with alanine mutation of two putative phosphorylation sites in the activation domain

Yeast

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-44

  Mollapour, Mehdi ^a,b   Piper, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation domain mutation; War1; Weak acid stress response; Yeast; Zinc finger transcription factor

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; PROTEIN KINASE; SORBIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR WAR1;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE INDUCTION; MUTANT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PDR12 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84855648361     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: 10970061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1915     Document Type: Article

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