Cloning and characterization of avfA and omtB genes involved in aflatoxin biosynthesis in three Aspergillus species

Gene

Volumn 248, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 157-167

  Yu, Jiujiang ^a   Woloshuk, Charles P ^b   Bhatnagar, Deepak ^a   Cleveland, Thomas E ^a  

^a SOUTHERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Averufin; Methyltransferase; Mycotoxins; O methylsterigmatocystin; SAM binding motif; Secondary metabolites

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; AFLATOXIN B1; AFLATOXIN B2; AFLATOXIN G1; AFLATOXIN G2; METHYLTRANSFERASE; STERIGMATOCYSTIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AFLATOXINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTHRAQUINONES; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS PARASITICUS; ASPERGILLUS SOJAE; EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

EID: 0034595426     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00126-8     Document Type: Article

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