Genome-wide identification of target genes of a mating-type α-domain transcription factor reveals functions beyond sexual development

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1002-1022

  Becker, Kordula ^a   Beer, Christina ^a   Freitag, Michael ^b   Kück, Ulrich ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MAT1 1 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING MOTIF; EUASCOMYCETE; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; IRON METABOLISM; KEX1 GENE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PPG1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SECONDARY METABOLISM; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CHEMISTRY; FUNGAL MATING TYPE GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HYPHAE; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SECONDARY METABOLISM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84929259266     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12987     Document Type: Article

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