The MAPKK kinase SteC regulates conidiophore morphology and is essential for heterokaryon formation and sexual development in the homothallic fungus Aspergillus nidulans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1577-1588

  Wei, Huijun ^a   Requena, Natalia ^a,b   Fischer, Reinhard ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME REGULATION; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH RATE; HETEROKARYON; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0037344817     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03405.x     Document Type: Article

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