Expression of THR1, a 1,3,8-Trihydroxynaphthalene Reductase Gene Involved in Melanin Biosynthesis in the Phytopathogenic Fungus Bipolaris oryzae, is Enhanced by Near-Ultraviolet Radiation

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 15-23

  Kihara, Junichi ^a   Moriwaki, Akihiro ^a   Ito, Machiko ^a   Arase, Sakae ^a   Honda, Yuichi ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

1,3,8 THN reductase; Bipolaris oryzae; Gene expression; Melanin biosynthesis; NUV radiation; Photomorphogenesis; THR1

Indexed keywords

1,3,8 TRIHYDROXYNAPHTHALENE REDUCTASE; GENE PRODUCT; MELANIN; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; NAPHTHALENEDIOL; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIPOLARIS ORYZAE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; MELANOGENESIS; NEAR ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS; PHYTOPATHOGENIC FUNGUS; PLANT DISEASE; RADIATION DOSE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THR1 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC VECTORS; MELANINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-CH GROUP DONORS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

BIPOLARIS; BIPOLARIS ORYZAE; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0842305818     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1600-0749.2003.00102.x     Document Type: Article

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