Interaction between mating-type proteins from the homothallic fungus Sordaria macrospora

Current Genetics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 150-158

  Jacobsen, Sabine ^a,b   Wittig, Michael ^a   Pöggeler, Stefanie ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Filamentous ascomycetes; Mating type genes; Transactivation; Two hybrid analysis

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN SMTA 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; IN VITRO STUDY; MATING TYPE; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SORDARIALES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SORDARIALES; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

ASCOMYCOTA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MACROSPORA; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SORDARIA; SORDARIA MACROSPORA; SORDARIALES;

EID: 0036956506     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-002-0276-0     Document Type: Review

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