Isolation of a class IV chitin synthase gene from a zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus oligosporus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-8

  Motoyama, Takayuki ^b   Horiuchi, Hiroyuki ^a   Ohta, Akinori ^a   Yamaguchi, Isamu ^b   Takagi, Masamichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chitin synthase; Differential expression; Rhizopus oligosporus; Zygomycetes

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE; FUNGAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOPUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS; ZYGOMYCETES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHITIN SYNTHASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RHIZOPUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; OLIGOSPORUS; RHIZOPUS; RHIZOPUS MICROSPORUS VAR. OLIGOSPORUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 0031734558     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00438-8     Document Type: Article

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