The CRG1 gene required for resistance to the singlet oxygen-generating cercosporin toxin in Cercospora nicotianae encodes a putative fungal transcription factor

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 302, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 302-310

  Chung, Kuang Ren ^a   Daub, Margaret E ^b   Kuchler, Karl ^c   Schüller, Christoph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Photosensitizer; Plant pathogen; Resistance; Singlet oxygen; Superoxide; Zinc finger DNA binding domain

Indexed keywords

CERCOSPORIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; MYCOTOXIN; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; SINGLET OXYGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING MOTIF; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; INTRON; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WILD TYPE;

CERCOSPORA; CERCOSPORA NICOTIANAE; FUNGI;

EID: 0037428263     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(03)00171-2     Document Type: Article

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