Distinctive properties and expression profiles of glutamine synthetase from a plant symbiotic fungus

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 373, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 357-368

  Montanini, Barbara ^a   Betti, Marco ^b   Márquez, Antonio J ^b   Balestrini, Raffaella ^c   Bonfante, Paola ^c   Ottonello, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ammonium assimilation; Gene expression; Glutamate dehydrogenase; Glutamate synthase; Glutamine synthetase; Mycorrhizal fungi

Indexed keywords

CELLS; ENZYMES; FUNGI; NITROGEN; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA; SUBSTRATES;

NITROGEN RETRIEVAL;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; HERBICIDE; NITRATE; PHOSPHINOTHRICIN;

AMIDATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; EFFECTOR CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOBUTYRIC ACIDS; AMMONIA; ASCOMYCOTA; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HERBICIDES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCELIUM; NITRATES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; TUBER BORCHII;

EID: 0041344552     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20030152     Document Type: Article

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