Mutagenesis of putative acylation sites alters function, localization, and accumulation of a Giα subunit of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1130-1135

  Gao, Shaojian ^a   Nuss, Donald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fungal virulence

Indexed keywords

ACYLATION; CHESTNUT BLIGHT FUNGUS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GROWTH; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MUTAGENESIS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPOROGENESIS; VIRULENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

CRYPHONECTRIA PARASITICA; FUNGI; TEREBRANTIA;

EID: 0032212644     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.11.1130     Document Type: Article

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