MpkA-dependent and -independent cell wall integrity signaling in Aspergillus nidulans

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1497-1510

  Fujioka, Tomonori ^a   Mizutani, Osamu ^a   Furukawa, Kentaro ^a   Sato, Natsuko ^a   Yoshimi, Akira ^a   Yamagata, Youhei ^a   Nakajima, Tasuku ^a   Abe, Keietsu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL WALL; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL WALL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 34547919211     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00281-06     Document Type: Article

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