The dual specificity phosphatase Rok1 negatively regulates mating and pathogenicity in Ustilago maydis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 73-88

  Di Stasio, Maurizio ^a   Brefort, Thomas ^a   Mendoza Mendoza, Artemio ^a   Münch, Karin ^a   Kahmann, Regine ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHEROMONE; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN FUZ7; PROTEIN KPP2; PROTEIN ROK1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DELETION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROK1 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; USTILAGO; VIRULENCE;

FUNGI; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

EID: 67649442691     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06747.x     Document Type: Article

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