Cerato-platanin protein is located in the cell walls of ascospores, conidia and hyphae of Ceratocystis fimbriata f. sp. platani

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 233, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 341-346

  Boddi, Silvia ^a   Comparini, Cecilia ^a   Calamassi, Roberto ^a   Pazzagli, Luigia ^a   Cappugi, Gianni ^a   Scala, Aniello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

ELISA; Immunofluorescence; Immunogold labelling; Plant pathogen interaction

Indexed keywords

CERATO PLATANIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PHYTOALEXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASCOSPORE; CELL DEATH; CELL WALL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CERATOCYSTIS FIMBRIATA; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL CELL CULTURE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; IMMUNOLOGICAL TECHNIQUE; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ASCOMYCOTA; CELL WALL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HYPHAE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; SPORES, FUNGAL;

CERATOCYSTIS; CERATOCYSTIS FIMBRIATA F. SP. PLATANI;

EID: 1842530197     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.03.001     Document Type: Article

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