The Mak2 MAP kinase signal transduction pathway is required for pathogenicity in Stagonospora nodorum

Current Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 60-68

  Solomon, Peter S ^a   Waters, Ormonde D C ^a   Simmonds, Joanne ^b   Cooper, Richard M ^b   Oliver, Richard P ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glume blotch; MAP kinase; Signal transduction; Stagonospora nodorum

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CYCLIC AMP; MELANIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NITROGEN; PROTEIN MAK2; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GROWTH RATE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOTIC STRESS; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT STOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; STAGONOSPORA NODORUM; STARVATION; UPREGULATION; WHEAT;

ASCOMYCOTA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHLEOMYCINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRITICUM; UP-REGULATION; VIRULENCE;

FUNGI; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; PHAEOSPHAERIA NODORUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 23144444812     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-005-0588-y     Document Type: Article

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