Impairment of calcineurin function in Neurospora crassa reveals its essential role in hyphal growth, morphology and maintenance of the apical Ca2+ gradient

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 104-114

  Prokisch, H ^a   Yarden, O ^b   Dieminger, M ^c   Tropschug, M ^c   Barthelmess, I B ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apical Ca2+ gradient; Calcineurin; Cyclosporin A; FK506; Neurospora crassa

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM ION; CALMODULIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; CYCLOSPORIN A; TACROLIMUS;

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS GROWTH; MORPHOGENESIS; MYCELIUM; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYCLOSPORINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; TACROLIMUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030667518     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050551     Document Type: Article

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