Nonself recognition is mediated by HET-C heterocomplex formation during vegetative incompatibility

EMBO Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 4841-4850

  Sarkar, Sovan ^a   Iyer, Gopal ^a   Wu, Jennifer ^b,c   Glass, N Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Neurospora crassa; Nonself recognition; Protein targeting; Vegetative incompatibility

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HET C PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELISM; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE LOCUS; GROWTH INHIBITION; HETEROKARYON; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL MEMBRANE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; HYPHAE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 0037119968     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdf479     Document Type: Article

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