Melanin biosynthesis in the maize pathogen Cochliobolus heterostrophus depends on two mitogen-activated protein kinases, Chk1 and Mps1, and the transcription factor Cmr1

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 421-429

  Eliahu, Noa ^a   Igbaria, Aeid ^a   Rose, Mark S ^b   Horwitz, Benjamin A ^a   Lev, Sophie ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b SYNGENTA BIOTECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHECKPOINT KINASE 1; CMR1 PROTEIN, COLLETOTRICHUM LAGENARIUM; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MELANIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MPS1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ASCOMYCOTA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MELANINS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZEA MAYS;

COCHLIOBOLUS HETEROSTROPHUS; COLLETOTRICHUM; COLLETOTRICHUM LAGENARIUM; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33947653110     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00264-06     Document Type: Article

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