cigA, a light-inducible gene involved in vegetative growth in Mucor circinelloides is regulated by the carotenogenic repressor crgA

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 122-132

  Quiles Rosillo, María D ^a   Torres Martínez, Santiago ^a   Garre, Victoriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complementation; Filamentous fungi; GDP fucose protein O fucosyltransferase; Gene replacement; Light regulation; Photoadaptation

Indexed keywords

FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE FUCOSE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DISPLAY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC STRAIN; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUCOR; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES; MUTANT; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOACCLIMATIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REPRESSOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TECHNIQUE; VEGETATIVE GROWTH; WILD TYPE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CAROTENOIDS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUCOR; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

FUNGI; MUCOR; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES;

EID: 0037331585     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1087-1845(02)00519-4     Document Type: Article

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