Cdc7-Dbf4 is a gene-specific regulator of meiotic transcription in yeast

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 541-557

  Lo, Hsiao Chi ^a   Kunz, Ryan C ^b   Chen, Xiangyu ^a   Marullo, Allison ^a   Gygi, Steven P ^b   Hollingsworth, Nancy M ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN 7; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1; DBF4 PROTEIN; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; IME2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; RFM1 PROTEIN; SUM1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NDT80; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REPRESSION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIRTUIN 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84863011469     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.06032-11     Document Type: Article

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