Mutation of a putative AMPK phosphorylation site abolishes the repressor activity but not the nuclear targeting of the fungal glucose regulator CRE1

Current Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 328-332

  Vautard Mey, Géraldine ^a   Fèvre, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

AMPK; CRE1; Sclerotinia sclerotiorum; Zinc finger protein

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; FUNGUS; GENE REPRESSION; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLUCOSE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SERINE;

ASCOMYCOTA; ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM;

EID: 0343238144     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050535     Document Type: Article

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