Identification of regulatory mutants of Aspergillus aculeatus affected in rhamnogalacturonan hydrolase expression

Current Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 439-446

  Suykerbuyk, M E G ^a   Van De Vondervoort, P J I ^a   Schaap, P J ^a   Visser, J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aspergillus aculeatus; Mutagenesis; Reporter enzyme; Rhamnogalacturonan hydrolase

Indexed keywords

GALACTURONIC ACID; HYDROLASE; MONOSACCHARIDE; PECTIN; RHAMNOSE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARBON; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; GLUCOSE OXIDASE; HEXURONIC ACIDS; HYDROLASES; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLASMIDS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RHAMNOSE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ASPERGILLUS ACULEATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER;

EID: 0029800866     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050154     Document Type: Article

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