Expression of asexual developmental regulator gene abaA is affected in the double mutants of classes I and II chitin synthase genes, chsC and chsA, of Aspergillus nidulans

Current Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 171-183

  Ichinomiya, Masayuki ^a   Ohta, Akinori ^a   Horiuchi, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chitin synthase; Conidiation; Filamentous fungi; Osmolarity

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN ABAA; PROTEIN BRLA; PROTEIN CHSA; PROTEIN CHSC; PROTEIN MEDA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CONIDIUM; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH RETARDATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; STAINING; WILD TYPE;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, REGULATOR; MUTATION; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; MEDA;

EID: 27644485572     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-005-0004-7     Document Type: Article

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