Ambient pH signal transduction in Aspergillus: Completion of gene characterization

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 994-1003

  Negrete Urtasun, Susana ^a   Reiter, Wolfgang ^a,c   Diez, Eliecer ^b   Denison, Steven H ^a,d   Tilburn, Joan ^a   Espeso, Eduardo A ^a   Peñalva, Miguel A ^b   Arst Jr , Herbert N ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Ctr de I B del C S de I C   (Spain)

^c Vienna Biocenter   (Austria)

^d ECKERD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PH; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032881608     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01540.x     Document Type: Article

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