A seven-WD40 protein related to human RACK1 regulates mating and virulence in Ustilago maydis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1484-1498

  Wang, Lei ^a   Berndt, Patrick ^a   Xia, Xiaojuan ^b   Kahnt, Jörg ^a   Kahmann, Regine ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASC1P PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; HETERODIMER; MFA1 PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHEROMONE; PRF1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN CRK1; PROTEIN RAK1; RECEPTOR FOR ACTIVATED C KINASE 1; REGULATOR PROTEIN; ROP1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APPRESSORIUM FORMATION; ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CELL GROWTH; CELL WALL; COLONY FORMATION; CONJUGATION TUBE FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FILAMENT FORMATION; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MATING; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; ROP1 GENE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UPREGULATION; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; USTILAGO; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

EID: 80052734769     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07783.x     Document Type: Article

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