MOD-D, a Gα subunit of the fungus Podospora anserina, is involved in both regulation of development and vegetative incompatibility

Genetics

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 519-528

  Loubradou, Gabriel ^a   Bégueret, Joël ^a   Turcq, Béatrice ^a  

^a Institut de Biochimie et Genetique Cellulaires   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MOD D PROTEIN, PODOSPORA ANSERINA; MOD-D PROTEIN, PODOSPORA ANSERINA;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE CONTROL; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCETES; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE;

FUNGI; PODOSPORA ANSERINA;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYCLIC AMP; DIMERIZATION; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 0032587304     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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