Ferrochelatase is a conserved downstream target of the blue light-sensing White collar complex in fungi

Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2393-2407

  Idnurm, Alexander ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROCHELATASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HEME; PORPHYRIN; PROTEIN HEM 15; PROTEIN WHITE COLLAR 1; PROTEIN WHITE COLLAR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUNGAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLUE LIGHT; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GENE CONTROL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHYCOMYCES BLAKESLEEANUS; PHYCOMYCETES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; PHYCOMYCES; RADIATION RESPONSE;

CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FERROCHELATASE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIGHT; MITOCHONDRIA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYCOMYCES; RNA, FUNGAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHYCOMYCES BLAKESLEEANUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 77955370227     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.039222-0     Document Type: Article

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