Characterisation and expression analysis of a nitrate transporter and nitrite reductase genes, two members of a gene cluster for nitrate assimilation from the symbiotic basidiomycete Hebeloma cylindrosporum

Current Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 199-205

  Jargeat, Patricia ^a,b   Rekangalt, David ^a   Verner, Marie Christine ^a   Gay, Gilles ^a   Debaud, Jean Claude ^a   Marmeisse, Roland ^a   Fraissinet Tachet, Laurence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Basidiomycetes; Ectomycorrhiza; Nitrate uptake; Nitrogen regulation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE TRANSPORTER; NITRITE REDUCTASE; ORGANIC NITROGEN; POLYPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEBELOMA CYLINDROSPORUM; HOMOBASIDIOMYCETES; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROGEN DEFICIENCY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PLANT NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; WILD TYPE;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; HEBELOMA; HEBELOMA CYLINDROSPORUM; HOMOBASIDIOMYCETES; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0037774715     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-003-0387-2     Document Type: Article

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