Response regulators SrrA and SskA are central components of a phosphorelay system involved in stress signal transduction and asexual sporulation in Aspergillus nidulans

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1570-1583

  Vargas Pérez, Itzel ^a   Sánchez, Olivia ^a   Kawasaki, Laura ^a   Georgellis, Dimitris ^a   Aguirre, Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CATALASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN-HISTIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL WALL; DRUG EFFECT; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CATALASE; CELL WALL; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MUTATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORES, FUNGAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMERICELLA NIDULANS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 34748844485     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00085-07     Document Type: Article

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