GABA induction of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae UGA4 gene depends on the quality of the carbon source: Role of the key transcription factors acting in this process

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 421, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 572-577

  Levi, Carolina E ^a   Cardillo, Sabrina B ^a   Bertotti, Santiago ^b   Ríos, Cristian ^a   Correa García, Susana ^a   Moretti, Mariana Bermúdez ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Carbon regulation; Dal81; GATA factors; Kinases; Uga3; UGA4

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CARBON; FUNGAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UGA4 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBON SOURCE; GENE INDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CARBON; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FERMENTATION; GABA PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GLUCOSE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84860664891     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.04.047     Document Type: Article

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