The PKS4 gene of Fusarium graminearum is essential for zearalenone production

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3924-3932

  Lysøe, Erik ^a,b   Klemsdal, Sonja S ^a   Bone, Karen R ^a   Frandsen, Rasmus J N ^c   Johansen, Thomas ^c   Thrane, Ulf ^d   Giese, Henriette ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ENZYMES; FUNGI; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PROTEINS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

AUROFUSARIN MUTANTS; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; PATHOGENICITY; POLYKETIDE; ZEARALENONE (ZON);

GENES;

AUROFUSARIN; ENOYL REDUCTASE; GENE PRODUCT; MYCOTOXIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN PKS13; PROTEIN PKS4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZEARALENONE;

ANIMAL; BARLEY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PATHOGENICITY; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BARLEY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; FUSARIUM HEAD BLIGHT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HYGB GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PKS4 GENE; PLANT DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ZEARALENONE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ANIMALIA; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM PSEUDOGRAMINEARUM; GIBBERELLA ZEAE; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 33745169692     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00963-05     Document Type: Article

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