Pneumocystis carinii exhibits a conserved meiotic control pathway

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 417-425

  Burgess, Joshua W ^a   Kottom, Theodore J ^a   Limper, Andrew H ^a,b  

^a MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MEIOTIC CONTROL KINASE PCMEI2; MEIOTIC CONTROL KINASE PCRAN1; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DATA BASE; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; KNOCKOUT GENE; MIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PCMEI2 GENE; PCRAN1 GENE; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII;

EID: 37749037046     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00986-07     Document Type: Article

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