A RING-finger photocarotenogenic repressor involved in asexual sporulation in Mucor circinelloides

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 280, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-88

  Nicolás, Francisco E ^a,b   Calo, Silvia ^a   Murcia Flores, Laura ^a,c   Garre, Victoriano ^a   Ruiz Vázquez, Rosa M ^a   Torres Martínez, Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Filamentous fungi; Light responses; Sporulation

Indexed keywords

CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; CRG PROTEIN; PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RING FINGER PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL SPORE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE SILENCING; MUCOR; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPOROGENESIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BETA CAROTENE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; LIGHT; MUCOR; PHOTOTROPISM; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SPORES, FUNGAL;

FUNGI; MUCOR; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES;

EID: 38849115778     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.01044.x     Document Type: Article

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