Domesticated transposase Kat1 and its fossil imprints induce sexual differentiation in yeast

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 43, 2014, Pages 15491-15496

  Rajaei, Naghmeh ^a   Chiruvella, Kishore K ^a   Lin, Feng ^a,b   Åström, Stefan U ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

DNA double strand break; DNA hairpin; Frameshift; Mating type; Transposable element

Indexed keywords

KAT1 PROTEIN; MST1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSPOSASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUNGAL PROTEIN; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FOSSIL; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INVERTED REPEAT; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; MATING TYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSPOSON; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; FUNGAL MATING TYPE GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; KLUYVEROMYCES; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA, INTERGENIC; FOSSILS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; KLUYVEROMYCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 84908538464     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1406027111     Document Type: Article

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