CPCR1, but not its interacting transcription factor AcFKH1, controls fungal arthrospore formation in Acremonium chrysogenum

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1220-1233

  Hoff, Birgit ^a   Schmitt, Esther K ^a,b   Kück, Ulrich ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN C; PROTEIN CPCR1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ACFKH1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTHROSPORE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL SEPARATION; CEPHALOSPORIUM ACREMONIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGFP GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GROWTH REGULATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PCBC GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ACREMONIUM; BIOMASS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYPHAE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ACREMONIUM CHRYSOGENUM;

EID: 19944387644     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04626.x     Document Type: Article

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