Role of Hsl7 in morphology and pathogenicity and its interaction with other signaling components in the plant pathogen ustilago maydis

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 869-883

  Lovely, C Ben ^a   Aulakh, Kavita Burman ^a   Perlin, Michael H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

P21 ACTIVATED KINASE; PHEROMONE; PRMT2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOSKELETON; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; USTILAGO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CULTURE MEDIA; CYTOSKELETON; GENE DELETION; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, FUNGAL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MUTATION; P21-ACTIVATED KINASES; PHEROMONES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN-ARGININE N-METHYLTRANSFERASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; USTILAGO;

FUNGI; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

EID: 79960111838     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00237-10     Document Type: Article

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