Isolation and characterization of the Cryptococcus neoformans MATa pheromone gene

Genetics

Volumn 160, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 935-947

  McClelland, Carol M ^a   Fu, Jianmin ^a   Woodlee, Gay L ^a   Seymour, Tara S ^a   Wickes, Brian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PHEROMONE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN MATA; PROTEIN MFALPHA1; PROTEIN MFALPHA2; PROTEIN MFALPHA3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHEROMONES;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0036198370     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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