The important role of actinin-like protein (AcnA) in cytokinesis and apical dominance of hyphal cells in Aspergillus nidulans

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2714-2725

  Wang, Jinjun ^a   Hu, Hongqin ^a   Wang, Sha ^a   Shi, Jie ^a   Chen, Shaochun ^a   Wei, Hua ^a   Xu, Xushi ^a   Lu, Ling ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTININ LIKE PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL WALL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL SPORE GERMINATION; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE DELETION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ACTININ; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL POLARITY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOKINESIS; DNA, FUNGAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYPHAE; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 69949112357     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.029215-0     Document Type: Article

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