A pas protein from a phytopathogenic fungus causes defects in hyphal growth polarity, and induces tumors in mice

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 262, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 46-54

  Truesdell, G M ^a,b   Jones, C ^a   Holt, T ^a   Henderson, G ^a   Dickman, M B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b CEPRAP   (United States)

Author keywords

Colletotrichum trifolii; Growth polarity; Ras; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

RAS PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ALFALFA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; COLLETOTRICHUM; EUKARYOTE; FIBROBLAST; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE MUTATION; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR GROWTH; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL POLARITY; CELL STRAIN 3T3; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

3T3 CELLS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL POLARITY; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COLLETOTRICHUM; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; RAS PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033173473     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380051058     Document Type: Article

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