The HOG pathway in the halophilic black yeast Hortaea werneckii: Isolation of the HOG1 homolog gene and activation of HwHog1p

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 193-199

  Turk, Martina ^a   Plemenitaš, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Halophilic yeast; HOG1; Hortaea werneckii; HwHog1p; Plasma membrane

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; HIGH OSMOLARITY GLYCEROL RESPONSE 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; DOTHIDEALES; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; EUKARYOTE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CODE; HORTAEA WERNICKII; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SALINITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CHAETOTHYRIALES; EUKARYOTA; HORTAEA; HORTAEA WERNECKII; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0037027522     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)01033-9     Document Type: Article

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