A RING-finger protein regulates carotenogenesis via proteolysis-independent ubiquitylation of a White Collar-1-like activator

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1026-1036

  Silva, Fátima ^a   Navarro, Eusebio ^a   Peñaranda, Ascensión ^a   Murcia Flores, Laura ^a,b   Torres Martínez, Santiago ^a   Garre, Victoriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENE; RING FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLUE LIGHT; CRGA GENE; FUNGAL GENE; KNOCKOUT GENE; MCWC 1B GENE; MCWC 1C GENE; MUCOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOTROPISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; UBIQUITINATION;

CAROTENOIDS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; LIGHT; MUCOR; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RING FINGER DOMAINS; UBIQUITINATION;

FUNGI; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES;

EID: 54249162442     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06470.x     Document Type: Article

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