Role of a mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway during conidial germination and hyphal fusion in Neurospora crassa

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 348-358

  Pandey, Amita ^a   Roca, M Gabriela ^b   Read, Nick D ^b   Glass, N Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NRC 1 PROTEIN, NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NRC-1 PROTEIN, NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; HYPHAE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 16544382262     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.3.2.348-358.2004     Document Type: Article

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