The phocein homologue SmMOB3 is essential for vegetative cell fusion and sexual development in the filamentous ascomycete Sordaria macrospora

Current Genetics

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 133-149

  Bernhards, Yasmine ^a   Pöggeler, Stefanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fruiting body development; Hyphal fusion; Phocein; Sordaria macrospora

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL TELOPEPTIDE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PHOCEIN; SMMOB3 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CELL FUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRUITING; FRUITING BODY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRO11 GENE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SMMOB3 GENE; SORDARA MACROSPORA; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL FUSION; FRUITING BODIES, FUNGAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SORDARIALES;

EUKARYOTA; SORDARIA MACROSPORA;

EID: 79954439891     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-010-0333-z     Document Type: Article

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