Characterization of a Phytophthora infestans gene involved in vesicle transport

Gene

Volumn 181, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 89-94

  Chen, Yin ^a   Roxby, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fungi; GTP binding protein; Oomycetes; Ras superfamily; Ypt1 family

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; POLYADENYLATED RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE NUMBER; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; INTRON; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOMYCETES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; START CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DNA, FUNGAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYTOPHTHORA; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RAS PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

ALGAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; OOMYCETES; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030605251     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00469-6     Document Type: Article

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