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A ste12 allele having a differential effect on a versus alpha cells.
Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 6 Jan 1995
La Roche S D, Shafer B K, Strathern J N
Abstract excerpt
The transcriptional activator Ste12p is a key component of the yeast pheromone response pathway: phosphorylated as a consequence of signal transduction, it activates transcription of genes that promote mating and the subsequent fusion of the two cell types a and alpha. Activation by Ste12p requires three types of protein-protein interaction between DNA-binding activator proteins: (1) Ste12p by itself can induce...
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