The multifunctional β-oxidation enzyme is required for full symptom development by the biotrophic maize pathogen Ustilago maydis

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2047-2061

  Klose, Jana ^a   Kronstad, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; FUNGAL DNA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIPID METABOLISM; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PEROXISOME; PLANT DISEASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; USTILAGO; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; FATTY ACIDS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FUNGAL; LIPID METABOLISM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PEROXISOMES; PLANT DISEASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORES, FUNGAL; USTILAGO; VIRULENCE; ZEA MAYS;

USTILAGO MAYDIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33845653667     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00231-06     Document Type: Article

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