Expression of the carG gene, encoding geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthase, is up-regulated by blue light in Mucor circinelloides

Current Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 112-120

  Velayos, Antonio ^a,b   Papp, Tamás ^a   Aguilar Elena, Raúl ^a   Fuentes Vicente, Mónica ^a   Eslava, Arturo P ^a   Iturriaga, Enrique A ^a   Álvarez, María Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blue light regulation; Carotenoid biosynthesis; GGPP synthase; Prenyl pyrophosphate synthases

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; FARNESYL TRANS TRANSFERASE; FUNGAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLUE LIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI; HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHT IRRADIANCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUCOR; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRUCTURAL GENE; UPREGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; GIBBERELLA; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI; MUCOR; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES;

EID: 0038677055     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-003-0376-5     Document Type: Article

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