Trichoderma G protein-coupled receptors: Functional characterisation of a cAMP receptor-like protein from Trichoderma atroviride

Current Genetics

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 283-299

  Brunner, Kurt ^a   Omann, Markus ^a   Pucher, Marion E ^a   Delic, Marizela ^a   Lehner, Sylvia M ^a   Domnanich, Patrick ^a   Kratochwill, Klaus ^a   Druzhinina, Irina ^a   Denk, Dagmar ^a   Zeilinger, Susanne ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

G protein signalling; Gene expression; GPCR; Trichoderma

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR PTH 11; GLYCEROL; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN GPR 1; PROTEIN GPR 3; PROTEIN GPR 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FUNGAL SPORE GERMINATION; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRICHODERMA; TRICHODERMA ATROVIRIDE; TRICHODERMA REESEI; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, CYCLIC AMP; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRICHODERMA;

FUNGI; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; TRICHODERMA; TRICHODERMA ATROVIRIDE;

EID: 56749164903     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-008-0217-7     Document Type: Article

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