Crucial factors of the light perception machinery and their impact on growth and cellulase gene transcription in Trichoderma reesei

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 468-476

  Castellanos, Francisco ^a   Schmoll, Monika ^b   Martínez, Pedro ^a   Tisch, Doris ^b   Kubicek, Christian P ^b   Herrera Estrella, Alfredo ^a   Esquivel Naranjo, Edgardo Ulises ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA   (Mexico)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Blue light; Cellulases; Hypocrea; Photoconidiation; Photoreceptor; Vivid; White collar

Indexed keywords

BLR1 PROTEIN; BLR2 PROTEIN; CELLULASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH REGULATION; HYPOCREA JECORINA; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIGHT INTENSITY; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOACCLIMATIZATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

CELLULASE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; LIGHT; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRICHODERMA;

FUNGI; HYPOCREA; HYPOCREA JECORINA; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 77950867848     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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