Nonallelic interactions between het-c and a polymorphic locus, pin-c, are essential for nonself recognition and programmed cell death in Neurospora crassa

Genetics

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1545-1555

  Kaneko, Isao ^a,b   Dementhon, Karine ^a   Xiang, Qijun ^a,c   Glass, N Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELISM; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROKARYON; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENETIC MARKERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEMPERATURE;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 33645237755     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.051490     Document Type: Article

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