2 Seeing the Light: News in Neurospora Blue Light Signal Transduction

Advances in Genetics

Volumn 41, Issue C, 1999, Pages 35-54

  Linden, H ^a   Ballario, P ^b   Arpaia, G ^b   Macino, G ^b  

^a Centro di Studio per gli Acidi Nucleici Università di Roma La Sapienza ^*

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE C; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WC 1 PROTEIN, NEUROSPORA CRASSA; WC-1 PROTEIN, NEUROSPORA CRASSA; WHITE COLLAR 2 PROTEIN, NEUROSPORA;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA; PHOTOBIOLOGY; PROTEIN KINASE C; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032605416     PISSN: 00652660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2660(08)60150-9     Document Type: Chapter

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