Cloning and expression analysis of the ornithine decarboxylase gene (PbrODC) of the pathogenic fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

Yeast

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 211-218

  Niño Vega, Gustavo A ^a   Sorais, Françoise ^a   Calcagno, Ana María ^a   Ruiz Herrera, José ^b   Martínez Espinoza, Alfredo D ^b,c   San Blas, Gioconda ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimorphic transition; Gene expression; Onygenales; Paracoccidioides brasiliensis; Polyamines; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; POLYPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CELL BUDDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENBANK; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GROWTH CURVE; INTRON; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONYGENALES; OPEN READING FRAME; ORDO; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; TAXONOMY; THERMOREGULATION; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE LIBRARY; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, FUNGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

FUNGI; ONYGENALES; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 1342333097     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1066     Document Type: Article

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