An NADPH-dependent genetic switch regulates plant infection by the rice blast fungus

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 50, 2010, Pages 21902-21907

  Wilson, Richard A ^a,b   Gibson, Robert P ^a   Quispe, Cristian F ^a,b   Littlechild, Jennifer A ^a   Talbot, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascomycete; Cofactor; Fungal pathogenicity

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN; NMR1 PROTEIN; NMR2 PROTEIN; NMR3 PROTEIN; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; TREHALOSE 6 PHOSPHATE SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE SWITCHING; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE BLAST;

CO-REPRESSOR PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MAGNAPORTHE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NADP; NITROGEN; ORYZA SATIVA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE PATHWAY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

FUNGI; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE;

EID: 78650745996     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1006839107     Document Type: Article

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