Analysis of cryptococcus neoformans sexual development reveals rewiring of the pheromone-response network by a change in transcription factor identity

Genetics

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 435-449

  Kruzel, Emilia K ^a   Giles, Steven S ^a   Hull, Christina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PHEROMONE; PHEROMONE RESPONSE ELEMENT; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MAT2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOINFORMATICS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PHEROMONES; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84862532332     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.138958     Document Type: Article

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