Mapping the fine structure of a eukaryotic promoter input-output function

Nature Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1207-1215

  Rajkumar, Arun S ^a   Dénervaud, Nicolas ^a   Maerkl, Sebastian J ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PHO4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PHO5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIVISION; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NUCLEOSOME; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ACID PHOSPHATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, FUNGAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84885018787     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2729     Document Type: Article

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