The product of the het-C heterokaryon incompatibility gene of Neurospora crassa has characteristics of a glycine-rich cell wall protein

Genetics

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1589-1600

  Saupe, Sven J ^a   Kuldau, Gretchen A ^a,b   Smith, Myron L ^a,c   Glass, N Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; GLYCINE;

CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; HETEROKARYON; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GLYCINE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029817633     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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