Multiple functions of mfa-1, a putative pheromone precursor gene of Neurospora crassa

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 987-999

  Kim, Hyojeong ^a   Metzenberg, Robert L ^b   Nelson, Mary Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; CYSTEINE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHEROMONES; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTEIN ISOPRENYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MACROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SORDARIA MACROSPORA;

EID: 0037657604     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.1.6.987-999.2002     Document Type: Article

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