Signaling by the pathogenicity-related MAP kinase of cochliobolus heterostrophus correlates with its local accumulation rather than phosphorylation

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1093-1103

  Lev, Sophie ^a   Tal, Hila ^a   Rose, Mark S ^b   Horwitz, Benjamin A ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b SYNGENTA BIOTECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CYTOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GERMINATION; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ASCOMYCOTA; ENVIRONMENT; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GERMINATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MUTANT PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

COCHLIOBOLUS HETEROSTROPHUS; FUNGI; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 68949163699     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-22-9-1093     Document Type: Article

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