A class Vb chitin synthase in Colletotrichum graminicola is localized in the growing tips of multiple cell types, in nascent septa, and during septum conversion to an end wall after hyphal breakage

Protoplasma

Volumn 227, Issue 2-4, 2006, Pages 155-164

  Amnuaykanjanasin, A ^a   Epstein, L ^b  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chitin synthase; Confocal microscopy; Fungal growth; GFP fusion; Glomerella graminicola; Myosin motor

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; COLLETOTRICHUM; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; CHITIN SYNTHASE; COLLETOTRICHUM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYPHAE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

COLLETOTRICHUM; FUNGI; GLOMERELLA GRAMINICOLA;

EID: 33744529344     PISSN: 0033183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00709-005-0126-2     Document Type: Article

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