Signaling via cAMP in fungi: Interconnections with mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 170, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 395-404

  Kronstad, James ^a   De Maria, Adriana ^a   Funnell, Deanna ^a   Laidlaw, R David ^a   Lee, Nancy ^a   Moniz De Sá, Mário ^a   Ramesh, Marilee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Appressorium; Dimorphism; Fungi; Mating; Sexual development; Signal transduction; Stress; Virulence

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ASCOMYCETES; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; USTILAGO MAYDIS; VIRULENCE;

CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGI; GENES, FUNGAL; MAGNAPORTHE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; USTILAGO; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0031757398     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050659     Document Type: Short Survey

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