A splice variant of the Neurospora crassa hex-1 transcript, which encodes the major protein of the Woronin body, is modulated by extracellular phosphate and pH changes

FEBS Letters

Volumn 583, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 180-184

  Leal, Juliana ^a   Squina, Fábio M ^a   Freitas, Janaína S ^a   Silva, Emiliana M ^a   Ono, Carlos J ^a   Martinez Rossi, Nilce M ^a   Rossi, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

hex 1; hsp 70; nuc 1; pacC; Pi regulation; Woronin body

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; DNA SPLICING; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEX 1 GENE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE; WORONIN BODY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; ORGANELLES; PHOSPHATES; UP-REGULATION;

ASCOMYCOTA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 57749200920     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.11.050     Document Type: Article

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