4-Dihydromethyltrisporate dehydrogenase, an enzyme of the sex hormone pathway in Mucor mucedo, is constitutively transcribed but its activity is differently regulated in (+) and (-) mating types

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 804-812

  Schimek, Christine ^a   Petzold, Annett ^a   Schultze, Kornelia ^a   Wetzel, Jana ^a   Wolschendorf, Frank ^a   Burmester, Anke ^a   Wöstemeyer, Johannes ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fungi; Mating; Mucor mucedo; Pheromone; Posttranscriptional regulation; Trisporic acid; Zygomycetes

Indexed keywords

4 DIHYDROMETHYLTRISPORATE DEHYDROGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNODETECTION; MATING; MUCOR MUCEDO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; ZYGOMYCETES;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUCOR; MYCELIUM; OXIDOREDUCTASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

FUNGI; MUCOR MUCEDO; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 23944518455     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2005.05.003     Document Type: Article

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