Isolation and functional analysis of a gene, tcsB, encoding a transmembrane hybrid-type histidine kinase from Aspergillus nidulans

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 5304-5310

  Furukawa, Kentaro ^a   Katsuno, Yasuaki ^a   Urao, Takeshi ^a   Yabe, Tomio ^a   Yamada Okabe, Toshiko ^a   Yamada Okabe, Hisafumi ^a   Yamagata, Youhei ^a   Abe, Keietsu ^a   Nakajima, Tasuku ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CLONING; DNA; ENZYMES; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; OSMOSIS; YEAST;

HYPHAL DEVELOPMENT;

MICROORGANISMS;

ASPARTIC ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL RNA; HISTIDINE; MEMBRANE ENZYME; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN SLN1; PROTEIN TCSB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GENE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OSMOREGULATION; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0036841278     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.11.5304-5310.2002     Document Type: Article

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