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A novel expression cloning method to isolate mammalian transcription factors in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
1Department of Cell Growth, Differentiation and Development, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, University of Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. jre@sgi.celgen.kuleuven.ac.be
Nucleic Acids Research
|November 4, 1998
Abstract:
We describe a novel expression cloning strategy in the fission yeast for the isolation of mammalian transcription factors using a mammalian promoter as target. This strategy is possible because of the conservation between mammalian cells and Schizosaccharomyces pombe of the mechanism that leads to the selection of the transcription start site. It also opens new perspectives to investigate the transcriptional regulation of genes for which detailed promoter analysis is difficult.