Zinc Finger Transcription Factors Displaced SREBP Proteins as the Major Sterol Regulators during Saccharomycotina Evolution

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Maguire, Sarah L ^a,e   Wang, Can ^a   Holland, Linda M ^a   Brunel, François ^b,c   Neuvéglise, Cécile ^b,c   Nicaud, Jean Marc ^b,c   Zavrel, Martin ^d   White, Theodore C ^d   Wolfe, Kenneth H ^a   Butler, Geraldine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; STEROL REGULATORY ELEMENT BINDING PROTEINS; STEROLS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; YARROWIA; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 84893791019     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004076     Document Type: Article

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