Cloning and structural analysis of the melanin biosynthesis gene SCD1 encoding scytalone dehydratase in Colletotrichum lagenarium

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 4340-4344

  Kubo, Yasuyuki ^a,b   Takano, Yoshitaka ^a   Endo, Noriko ^a   Yasuda, Nobuko ^a,c   Tajima, Sohkichi ^a,d   Furusawa, Iwao ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Hokuriku Natl Agr Expt Stn   (Japan)

^d NIHON NOHYAKU CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; COSMID; DNA DETERMINATION; FUNGUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYBRIDIZATION; INTRON; MELANOGENESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

COCHLIOBOLUS MIYABEANUS; COLLETOTRICHUM LAGENARIUM; FUNGI; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA;

EID: 0029909023     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.12.4340-4344.1996     Document Type: Article

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