Phosphatidylinositol phospholipase c mediates carbon sensing and vegetative nuclear duplication rates in aspergillus nidulans

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 611-616

  de Figueiredo Conte Vanzela, Ana Paula ^a,b,c   Said, Suraia ^a   Prade, Rolf Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DOS VALES DO JEQUITINHONHA E MUCURI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aspergillus nidulans; Carbon source sensing; Nuclear division; Phosphatidylinositol phospholipase C; PlcA

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GLUCOSE; PECTIN LYASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL DIACYLGLYCEROL LYASE;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME RELEASE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL SPORE GERMINATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DISRUPTION; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEAR DIVISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE; CARBON METABOLISM; CELL DIVISION; GERMINATION;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CARBON; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS DIVISION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLUCOSE; PHOSPHOINOSITIDE PHOSPHOLIPASE C; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 79960857719     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: 14803275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/W11-034     Document Type: Note

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