Fission Yeast Hotspot Sequence Motifs Are Also Active in Budding Yeast

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Steiner, Walter W ^a   Steiner, Estelle M ^b  

^a NIAGARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b and Social Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CST6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SKO1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADE2 GENE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CARRIER PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 84871815978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053090     Document Type: Article

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