Concurrence of losing a chromosome and the ability to produce destruxins in a mutant of Metarhizium anisopliae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 373-378

  Wang, Chengshu ^a   Skrobek, Anke ^a   Butt, Tariq M ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conditionally dispensable chromosome; Destruxin; Metarhizium anisopliae; Mutant

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPEPTIDE; DESTRUXIN; SYNTHETASE; TOXIN; ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; ACID PHOSPHATASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BETA GLUCOSIDASE; DEPSIPEPTIDE; DESTRUXIN A; DESTRUXIN B; DESTRUXIN E; ESTERASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYDROLASE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; TRYPSIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INSECT; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE; ASCOMYCETES; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOME; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

FUNGI; INSECTA; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; ACID PHOSPHATASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BETA-GLUCOSIDASE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DEPSIPEPTIDES; ESTERASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HYDROLASES; HYPOCREALES; MUTATION; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRYPSIN;

EID: 0642285647     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00640-2     Document Type: Article

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