Controls of the expression of aspA, the aspartyl protease gene from Penicillium roqueforti

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 256, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 557-565

  Gente, S ^a   Durand Poussereau, N ^a   Fevre, M ^a  

^a Lab de Biologie Cellulaire Fongique   (France)

Author keywords

Aspartyl protease; Nitrogen regulation; Penicillium roqueforti; pH regulation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; BETA CASEIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME INDUCTION; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PENICILLIUM ROQUEFORTI; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; PENICILLIUM; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030829690     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050601     Document Type: Article

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