Analysis of mechanisms regulating expression of the ver-1 gene, involved in aflatoxin biosynthesis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1058-1065

  Liang, Shun Hsin ^a   Wu, Tzong Shoon ^a,c   Lee, Rachel ^b   Chu, Fun Sun ^b   Linz, John E ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN B1; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MALTOSE BINDING PROTEIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS PARASITICUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; REPORTER GENE; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ASPERGILLUS PARASITICUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI;

EID: 0031027782     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.3.1058-1065.1997     Document Type: Article

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