Biosynthesis of the red pigment bikaverin in Fusarium fujikuroi: Genes, their function and regulation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 931-946

  Wiemann, Philipp ^a   Willmann, Anita ^a   Straeten, Marcus ^a   Kleigrewe, Karin ^a   Beyer, Marita ^a   Humpf, Hans Ulrich ^a   Tudzynski, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIKAVERIN; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; NITROGEN; PIGMENT; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; PRE BIKAVERIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIK1 GENE; BIK2 GENE; BIK3 GENE; BIK4 GENE; BIK5 GENE; BIK6 GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM FUJIKUROI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACC GENE; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE TARGETING; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITROGEN; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XANTHONES;

FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI;

EID: 65549107863     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06695.x     Document Type: Article

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