Isolation and expression of a nitrogen regulatory gene, nmc, of Penicillium roqueforti

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 291-297

  Gente, Stéphanie ^a   Poussereau, Nathalie ^a   Fèvre, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Nitrogen regulation; nmc gene; Penicillium roqueforti

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PENICILLIUM ROQUEFORTI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, REGULATOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; PENICILLIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0032809762     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00208-6     Document Type: Article

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