Expression of the Sclerotinia sclerotiorum polygalacturonase pg1 gene: Possible involvement of CREA in glucose catabolite repression

Current Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 240-245

  Reymond Cotton, Pascale ^a   Fraissinet Tachet, Laurence ^a   Fèvre, Michel ^a  

^a CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Carbon catabolite repression; EMSA; Endopolygalacturonase gene; Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA FRAGMENT; GLUCOSE; POLYGALACTURONASE; POLYGALACTURONIC ACID; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; FUNGAL GENETICS; GLYCOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SUNFLOWER;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; HELIANTHUS; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM;

EID: 0029790620     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050127     Document Type: Article

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