The high-mobility-group domain transcription factor Rop1 is a direct regulator of prf1 in Ustilago maydis

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 379-391

  Brefort, Thomas ^a   Müller, Philip ^a   Kahmann, Regine ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUZ7 PROTEIN, USTILAGO MAYDIS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; PHEROMONE; PHEROMONE RESPONSE FACTOR 1, USTILAGO MAYDIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; USTILAGO;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; PHEROMONES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; USTILAGO;

FUNGI; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

EID: 13844313005     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.4.2.379-391.2005     Document Type: Article

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