Two components of a velvet-like complex control hyphal morphogenesis, conidiophore development, and penicillin biosynthesis in Penicillium chrysogenum

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1236-1250

  Hoff, Birgit ^a   Kamerewerd, Jens ^a   Sigl, Claudia ^b   Mitterbauer, Rudolf ^a   Zadra, Ivo ^b   Kürnsteiner, Hubert ^b   Kück, Ulrich ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN BINDING;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; FLUORESCENCE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

FLUORESCENCE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HYPHAE; MORPHOGENESIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PENICILLINS; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPORES, FUNGAL;

ASPERGILLUS; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM;

EID: 77955346444     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00077-10     Document Type: Article

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