csmA, a gene encoding a class V chitin synthase with a myosin motor-like domain of Aspergillus nidulans, is translated as a single polypeptide and regulated in response to osmotic conditions

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 103-109

  Takeshita, Norio ^a   Ohta, Akinori ^a   Horiuchi, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspergillus nidulans; Cell wall; Chitin synthase; CsmA; Filamentous fungi; Myosin; Osmotic conditions; Post transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE; EPITOPE; HEMAGGLUTININ; ISOENZYME; MYOSIN; POLYPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; RNA TRANSLATION; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHITIN SYNTHASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HEMAGGLUTININS; KINETICS; LECTINS; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOSINS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PEPTIDE BIOSYNTHESIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, FUNGAL;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0036402582     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(02)02418-X     Document Type: Article

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