Aspergillus nidulans natural product biosynthesis is regulated by MpkB, a putative pheromone response mitogen-activated protein kinase

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3596-3600

  Atoui, Ali ^a   Bao, Dapeng ^a   Kaur, Navgeet ^a   Grayburn, W Scott ^a   Calvo, Ana M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; RAW MATERIALS;

AMERICAN SOCIETY; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; GENE CLUSTERING; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED-PROTEIN-KINASE (MAPK); MYCOTOXIN LEVELS; NATURAL PRODUCTS; PENICILLIN (PE); SECONDARY METABOLISM; SYNTHESIS (OF CHIRAL IONIC LIQUIDS);

BIOCHEMISTRY;

FUNGAL ENZYME; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MAP KINASE B; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; MYCOTOXIN; NATURAL PRODUCT; PENICILLIN G; PHEROMONE; STERIGMATOCYSTIN; TERREQUINONE A;

ANTIBIOTICS; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHEROMONE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME MECHANISM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; INDOLES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PENICILLINS; PHEROMONES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STERIGMATOCYSTIN;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

EID: 44949098621     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02842-07     Document Type: Article

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