Isolation of a cDNA encoding a novel subtilisin-like protease (Pr1B) from the entomopathogenic fungus, Metarhizium anisopliae using differential display-RT-PCR

Gene

Volumn 197, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 1-8

  Joshi, Lokesh ^a   St Leger, Raymond J ^a   Roberts, Donald W ^a  

^a Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Asn155; Cuticle degrading enzymes; Insect pathogen; Karyotype; Thr220

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLYCINE; PROTEINASE; SERINE; SUBTILISIN; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGUS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS; GENE ISOLATION; KARYOTYPING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

FUNGI; INSECTA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE;

EID: 0030799304     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00132-7     Document Type: Article

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