Ubc2, an ortholog of the yeast Ste50p adaptor, possesses a basidiomycete-specific carboxy terminal extension essential for pathogenicity independent of pheromone response

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 110-121

  Klosterman, Steven J ^a,b   Martinez Espinoza, Alfredo D ^a   Andrews, David L ^a   Seay, Jeffrey R ^a,c   Gold, Scott E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimorphism; Ras

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE KINASE; PHEROMONE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN; STE50 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; UBC2 PROTEIN, USTILAGO MAYDIS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAIN; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; USTILAGO;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHEROMONES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAINS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; USTILAGO;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

EID: 37149050582     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-21-1-0110     Document Type: Article

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