Mapping of the nitrate-assimilation gene cluster (crnA-niiA-niaD) and characterization of the nitrite reductase gene (niiA) in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus

Current Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 206-215

  Amaar, Yousef G ^a   Moore, Margo M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aspergillus fumigatus; Fungal promoters; Nitrate assimilation; Nitrite reductase

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BINDING PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; NITRATE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; STRUCTURAL GENE; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; NITRITE REDUCTASES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0031981430     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050328     Document Type: Article

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