GAC1, a gene encoding a putative GTPase-activating protein, regulates bikaverin biosynthesis in Fusarium verticillioides

Mycologia

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 701-709

  Choi, Yoon E ^a   Brown, Jillian A ^a   Williams, Courtney B ^a   Canales, Lorena L ^a   Shim, Won Bo ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Restriction enzyme mediated integration; Secondary metabolism; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PROTEIN; SECONDARY METABOLITE; SIGNALING;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA MONILIFORMIS; MONILIFORMIS;

BIKAVERIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XANTHONE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PLANT DISEASE;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; MUTATION; PLANT DISEASES; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; XANTHONES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 58149144651     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/08-015     Document Type: Article

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