Melanin synthesis by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

Mycologia

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 296-304

  Butler, Michael J ^a   Gardiner, Richard B ^a   Day, Alan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

DHN melanin; Melanin; Melanin degradation; Polyketide melanin; Sclerotial melanin; Scytalone dehydratase

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXCRETION; FUNGUS; MELANIN; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

FUNGI; PHANEROCHAETE; PHANEROCHAETE CHRYSOSPORIUM; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM;

1,8 DIHYDROXYNAPHTHALENE MELANIN; 1,8-DIHYDROXYNAPHTHALENE MELANIN; 2 HYDROXYJUGLONE; 2-HYDROXYJUGLONE; AZURE A; HYDROLYASE; MELANIN; NAPHTHOL DERIVATIVE; NAPHTHOQUINONE; NITRIC ACID; PIGMENT; SCYTALONE DEHYDRATASE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; TRICYCLAZOLE;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG EFFECT; GIEMSA STAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHANEROCHAETE; PIGMENTATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STAINING; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ASCOMYCOTA; AZURE STAINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; CULTURE MEDIA; HYDRO-LYASES; MELANINS; NAPHTHOLS; NAPHTHOQUINONES; NITRIC ACID; PHANEROCHAETE; PIGMENTATION; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STAINING AND LABELING; THIAZOLES;

EID: 67650239848     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/08-120     Document Type: Article

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