Cloning and characterization of the BLR2, the homologue of the blue-light regulator of Neurospora crassa WC-2, in the phytopathogenic fungus Bipolaris oryzae

Current Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 115-121

  Moriwaki, Akihiro ^a   Katsube, Hirofumi ^a   Ueno, Makoto ^a   Arase, Sakae ^a   Kihara, Junichi ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE LIGHT REGULATOR 2 PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTOLYASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BIPOLARIS ORYZAE; BLUE LIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING MOTIF; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

BIPOLARIS ORYZAE; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 38049156445     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-007-9080-x     Document Type: Article

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