Expression of the cercosporin toxin resistance gene (CRG1) as a dicistronic mRNA in the filamentous fungus Cercospora nicotianae

Current Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 415-424

  Chung, Kuang Ren ^a   Daub, Margaret E ^b   Ehrenshaft, Marilyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Photosensitizer; Singlet oxygen; Toxin; Transcription factor; Uracil transporter; Zinc finger DNA binding domain

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; SPACER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; URACIL;

ARTICLE; CERCOSPORA NICOTIANAE; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE PROBE; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; GENOME, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PERYLENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CERCOSPORA; CERCOSPORA NICOTIANAE; FUNGI;

EID: 0141520631     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-003-0414-3     Document Type: Article

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