SmATG7 is required for viability in the homothallic ascomycete Sordaria macrospora

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 531-542

  Nolting, Nicole ^a   Bernhards, Yasmine ^a   Pöggeler, Stefanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

ATG7; Autophagy; Filamentous ascomycete; Sordaria macrospora; Ubiquitin activating like protein E1

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN SMATG7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; AUTOPHAGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIABILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; KNOCKOUT GENE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SORDARIA MACROSPORA; SORDARIALES; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE; YEAST;

AUTOPHAGY; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SORDARIALES;

ASCOMYCOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SORDARIA MACROSPORA;

EID: 67349136020     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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