Aspergillus nidulans HOG pathway is activated only by two-component signalling pathway in response to osmotic stress

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1246-1261

  Furukawa, Kentaro ^a   Hoshi, Yukiko ^a   Maeda, Tatsuya ^b   Nakajima, Tasuku ^a   Abe, Keietsu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE KINASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN HOG1P; PROTEIN HOGA; PROTEIN MPKC; PROTEIN PBSB; PROTEIN SLN1P; PROTEIN SSK1P; PROTEIN SSKA; PROTEIN SSKB; PROTIEN SHO1P; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HIGH OSMOLARITY GLYCEROL RESPONSE PATHWAY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOTIC STRESS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAIN; TWO COMPONENT SIGNALLING PATHWAY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 19944374475     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04605.x     Document Type: Article

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