A MADS box protein interacts with a mating-type protein and is required for fruiting body development in the homothallic ascomycete Sordaria macrospora

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1043-1056

  Nolting, Nicole ^a   Pöggeler, Stefanie ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; FRUITING BODY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SORDARIALES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FRUITING BODIES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MCM1 PROTEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SORDARIALES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; METAZOA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SORDARIA MACROSPORA;

EID: 33746218931     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00086-06     Document Type: Article

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