Putative membrane components of signal transduction pathways for ambient pH regulation in Aspergillus and meiosis in Saccharomyces are homologous

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 259-264

  Denison, Steven H ^a,b   Negrete Urtasun, Susana ^a   Mingot, José Manuel ^c   Tilburn, Joan ^a   Mayer, Wendy A ^b   Goel, Alpa ^b   Espeso, Eduardo A ^a   Peñalva, Miguel A ^c   Arst Jr , Herbert N ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL PH; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SENSOR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MEIOSIS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031782334     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01058.x     Document Type: Article

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