Role of the Fusarium fujikuroi TOR kinase in nitrogen regulation and secondary metabolism

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1807-1819

  Teichert, Sabine ^a   Wottawa, Marieke ^a   Schönig, Birgit ^a   Tudzynski, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FK 506 BINDING PROTEIN; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; RAPAMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; ESSENTIAL GENE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FUNGAL GENE; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DOWN-REGULATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC VECTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NITROGEN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIROLIMUS; TACROLIMUS BINDING PROTEIN 1A; UP-REGULATION;

FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33750300646     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00039-06     Document Type: Article

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