The Ustilago maydis virally encoded KP1 killer toxin

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 957-963

  Park, Chung Mo ^a   Banerjee, Nanditta ^a,c   Koltin, Yigal ^b   Bruenn, Jeremy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; FUNGAL RNA; MYCOTOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; LETHALITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN STRUCTURE; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MYCOTOXINS; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, VIRAL; USTILAGO; VIRAL PROTEINS;

FUNGI; RNA VIRUSES; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

EID: 0029889056     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02537.x     Document Type: Article

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