Isolation and heterologous expression of a gene encoding 4- hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase from the wheat leaf-spot pathogen, Mycosphaerella graminicola

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 337-343

  Keon, John ^a   Hargreaves, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

4 hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase; Fungal pathogen; Mycosphaerella graminicola; Phenylalanine tyrosine metabolism

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYPHENYLPYRUVATE DIOXYGENASE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; FUNGAL DNA; HOMOGENTISIC ACID; PIGMENT; SULCOTRIONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGUS; GENE ISOLATION; MYCOSPHAERELLA GRAMINICOLA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WHEAT;

4-HYDROXYPHENYLPYRUVATE DIOXYGENASE; ASCOMYCOTA; DNA, FUNGAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRITICUM;

COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; GRAMINICOLA; MYCOSPHAERELLA GRAMINICOLA; SEPTORIA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0032523087     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00092-5     Document Type: Article

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