Cleavage of β-carotene as the first step in sexual hormone synthesis in zygomycetes is mediated by a trisporic acid regulated β-carotene oxygenase

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1096-1108

  Burmester, Anke ^a   Richter, Mareike ^b   Schultze, Kornelia ^a   Voelz, Kerstin ^a   Schachtschabel, Doreen ^b   Boland, Wilhelm ^b   Wöstemeyer, Johannes ^a   Schimek, Christine ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blakeslea trispora; Carotene cleavage; Carotene oxygenase; Mating; Mucorales; Rhizopus oryzae; Transcriptional regulation; Trisporic acid; Zygomycete

Indexed keywords

BETA CAROTENE; MESSENGER RNA; SEX HORMONE; TRISPORIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; ZYGOMYCETES;

BETA CAROTENE; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; OXYGENASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZYGOMYCOTA;

BLAKESLEA TRISPORA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; MUCORALES; RHIZOPUS ORYZAE; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 35148815621     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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