Transcription of the avirulence gene Avr9 of the fungal tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum is regulated by a GATA-type transcription factor in Aspergillus nidulans

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 261, Issue 4-5, 1999, Pages 653-659

  Snoeijers, S S ^a   Vossen, P ^a   Goosen, T ^a   Van den Broek, Henk W J ^a   De Wit, P J G M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AREA; niaD gene; NIRA; NIT2; Nitrogen starvation

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; NITROGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BINDING SITE; CLADOSPORIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; TOMATO; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLADOSPORIUM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GLUCURONIDASE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESTRICTION MAPPING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0033034930     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050008     Document Type: Article

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