Requirement of spermidine for developmental transitions in Aspergillus nidulans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 801-812

  Jin, Yuan ^a   Bok, Jin Woo ^b   Guzman De Peña, Doralinda ^c   Keller, Nancy P ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; POLYAMINE; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMIDINE SYNTHASE; STERIGMATOCYSTIN;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BACTERIAL SPORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPORE GERMINATION; SPOROGENESIS; VEGETATIVE GROWTH; WILD TYPE;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYAMINES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPERMIDINE; SPERMIDINE SYNTHASE; SPORES, FUNGAL; STERIGMATOCYSTIN;

ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0036436967     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03201.x     Document Type: Article

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