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Molecular Biology

D-Index
60
Citations
9052
World Ranking
1989
National Ranking
990

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Elton T. Young is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States.

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2012.

Best Publications

  • Transcriptional Regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Transcription Factor Regulation and Function, Mechanisms of Initiation, and Roles of Activators and Coactivators

    Steven Hahn;Elton T. Young

  • Zinc-dependent structure of a single-finger domain of yeast ADR1.

    Grace Párraga;Suzanna J. Horvath;Arri Eisen;Wayne E. Taylor

  • Multiple Pathways Are Co-regulated by the Protein Kinase Snf1 and the Transcription Factors Adr1 and Cat8

    Elton T. Young;Kenneth M. Dombek;Christine Tachibana;Trey Ideker

  • Cyclic changes in metabolic state during the life of a yeast cell

    Benjamin P. Tu;Rachel E. Mohler;Jessica C. Liu;Kenneth M. Dombek

  • Nucleotide sequence of the yeast alcohol dehydrogenase II gene

    D W Russell;M Smith;V M Williamson;E T Young

  • Sequence homology of the yeast regulatory protein ADR1 with Xenopus transcription factor TFIIIA

    Toinette A. Hartshorne;Hal Blumberg;Elton T. Young

  • Transposable elements associated with constitutive expression of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase II.

    Valerie M. Williamson;Elton T. Young;Michael Ciriacy

  • A positive regulatory gene is required for accumulation of the functional messenger RNA for the glucose-repressible alcohol dehydrogenase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Clyde L. Denis;Michael Ciriacy;Elton T. Young

  • Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry analysis of metabolites in fermenting and respiring yeast cells

    Rachel E. Mohler;Kenneth M. Dombek;Jamin C. Hoggard;Elton T. Young

  • Novel Intra-cellular Forms of Lambda DNA

    Elton T. Young;Robert L. Sinsheimer

  • Combined global localization analysis and transcriptome data identify genes that are directly coregulated by Adr1 and Cat8.

    Christine Tachibana;Jane Y. Yoo;Jean Basco Tagne;Nataly Kacherovsky

  • Trinucleotide repeats are clustered in regulatory genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Elton T. Young;James S. Sloan;Kristen Van Riper

  • Characterization of a regulatory region upstream of the ADR2 locus of S. cerevisiae.

    David R. Beier;Elton T. Young

  • Isolation of the structural gene for alcohol dehydrogenase by genetic complementation in yeast.

    Valerie M. Williamson;Jeffrey Bennetzen;Elton T. Young;Kim Nasmyth

  • Genome-wide amplifications caused by chromosomal rearrangements play a major role in the adaptive evolution of natural yeast.

    Juan J Infante;Kenneth M Dombek;Laureana Rebordinos;Jesús M Cantoral

  • Vegetative bacteriophage λ DNA: II. Physical characterization and replication

    Elton T. Young;Robert L. Sinsheimer

  • Two monomers of yeast transcription factor ADR1 bind a palindromic sequence symmetrically to activate ADH2 expression.

    S K Thukral;A Eisen;E T Young

  • Two zinc fingers of a yeast regulatory protein shown by genetic evidence to be essential for its function

    Hal Blumberg;Arri Eisen;Andrzej Sledziewski;Dorit Bader

  • Translationsl regulation of expression of the bacteriophage T4 lysozyme gene

    David S. Mcpheeters;Alan Christensen;Elton T. Young;Elton T. Young;Gary Stormo

  • Comprehensive analysis of yeast metabolite GC×GC–TOFMS data: combining discovery-mode and deconvolution chemometric software

    Rachel E. Mohler;Kenneth M. Dombek;Jamin C. Hoggard;Karisa M. Pierce

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert E. Synovec
Robert E. Synovec University of Washington
michael smith
michael smith Royal Geographical Society
David W. Russell
David W. Russell University of Washington
Benjamin P. Tu
Benjamin P. Tu The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
David R. Beier
David R. Beier Seattle Children's Hospital
Rachel E. Klevit
Rachel E. Klevit University of Washington
Leroy Hood
Leroy Hood University of Washington
Jeffrey L. Bennetzen
Jeffrey L. Bennetzen University of Georgia
Gary D. Stormo
Gary D. Stormo Washington University in St. Louis
Trey Ideker
Trey Ideker University of California, San Diego

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