MAP kinase and cAMP signaling pathways modulate the pH-induced yeast-to-mycelium dimorphic transition in the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis

Current Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 274-281

  Martínez Espinoza, Alfredo D ^a   Ruiz Herrera, José ^b   León Ramírez, Claudia G ^b   Gold, Scott E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHEROMONE; PROTEIN PRF1; PROTEIN UBC1; PROTEIN UBC2; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; CORN; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EFFECTOR CELL; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAPLOIDY; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UBC1 GENE; USTILAGO MAYDIS; WILD TYPE; YEAST;

CULTURE MEDIA; CYCLIC AMP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MUTATION; PHEROMONES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; USTILAGO;

FUNGI; USTILAGO; USTILAGO MAYDIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 4744342608     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-004-4315-6     Document Type: Article

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