Identification and characterization of a family of secretion-related small GTPase-encoding genes from the filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger: A putative SEC4 homologue is not essential for growth

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 513-525

  Punt, Peter J ^a,d   Seiboth, Bernhard ^a   Weenink, Xavier O ^b   Van Zeijl, Cora ^b   Lenders, Maja ^c   Konetschny, Christian ^c   Ram, Arthur F J ^a   Montijn, Roy ^a   Kubicek, Christian P ^b   Van Den Hondel, Cees A M J J ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d BAXTER INNOVATIONS GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DNA FRAGMENT; GLUCOSE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SEC 4; PROTEIN SRGA; RAB PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; DATA BASE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH CURVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLUCOSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYSACCHARIDES; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0034897768     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02541.x     Document Type: Article

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