Secondary metabolic gene cluster silencing in Aspergillus nidulans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1636-1645

  Bok, Jin Woo ^a   Noordermeer, Daan ^a,c   Kale, Shubha P ^b   Keller, Nancy P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA   (United States)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ARRESTIN 1; CARCINOGEN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN LAEA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; STERIGMATOCYSTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BINDING SITE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE SYNTHESIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NUTRIENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPOROGENESIS;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE ORDER; GENE SILENCING; METHYLATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; STERIGMATOCYSTIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

EID: 33748507381     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05330.x     Document Type: Article

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