The pro1+ gene from Sordaria macrospora encodes a C6 zinc finger transcription factor required for fruiting body development

Genetics

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 191-199

  Masloff, Sandra ^a   Pöggeler, Stefanie ^a   Kück, Ulrich ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DIMERIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COSMIDS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; KARYOTYPING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PROTOPLASTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SORDARIALES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TUBULIN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; ZINC FINGERS;

ASCOMYCOTA; MACROSPORA; SORDARIA MACROSPORA;

EID: 0344348872     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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