A putative rhamnogalacturonase required for sexual development of Neurospora crassa

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 531-540

  Nelson, Mary Anne ^a   Merino, Sandra T ^a   Metzenberg, Robert L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALACTURONIC ACID; PECTIN;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MEIOSIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSSES, GENETIC; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; POINT MUTATION; POLYSACCHARIDE-LYASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, FUNGAL;

ASPERGILLUS ACULEATUS; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 0030987725     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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