Mutations affecting extracellular protease production in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 250, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 715-724

  Katz, Margaret E ^a   Flynn, Pam K ^a   VanKuyk, Patricia A ^a   Cheetham, Brian F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; pH regulation; PrtA Carbon catabolite repression

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTANT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CULTURE MEDIA; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MUTATION; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029940951     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050125     Document Type: Article

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