The Aspergillus nidulans F-box protein GrrA links SCF activity to meiosis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 76-88

  Krappmann, Sven ^a   Jung, Nadja ^a   Medic, Branka ^a   Busch, Silke ^a   Prade, Rolf A ^b   Braus, Gerhard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

F BOX PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEASOME; PROTEIN GRR1P; PROTEIN GRRA; RECEPTOR; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASCOSPORE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DELETION MUTANT; EMERICELLA; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRRA GENE; MEIOSIS; NEGATIVE SUBTRACTION HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SCREENING TEST; SPOROGENESIS; STAINING; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; F-BOX PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SKP CULLIN F-BOX PROTEIN LIGASES; SPORES, FUNGAL; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

CLEISTOTHECIA; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33745203724     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05215.x     Document Type: Article

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