Carbon regulation of the cuticle-degrading enzyme PR1 from Metarhizium anisopliae may involve a trans-acting DNA-binding protein CRR1, a functional equivalent of the Aspergillus nidulans CREA protein

Current Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 511-518

  Screen, Steve ^a,b   Bailey, Andy ^a   Charnley, Keith ^a   Cooper, Richard ^a   Clarkson, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon catabolite repression; creA; Metarhizium

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BINDING SITE; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; ENZYME REGULATION; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CARBON; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; INSECTA; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE;

EID: 0030746877     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050238     Document Type: Article

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