The G-beta subunit MGB1 is involved in regulating multiple steps of infection-related morphogenesis in Magnaporthe grisea

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 231-243

  Nishimura, Marie ^a,b   Park, Gyungsoon ^b   Xu, Jin Rong ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN BETA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CELL LEVEL; CONIDIUM; DELETION MUTANT; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HYDROPHILICITY; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; MORPHOGENESIS; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CYCLIC AMP; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN BETA SUBUNITS; HYPHAE; MAGNAPORTHE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; VIRULENCE;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MAGNAPORTHE; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA;

EID: 0141484325     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03676.x     Document Type: Article

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