The general transcriptional repressor tup1 is required for dimorphism and virulence in a fungal plant pathogen

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Elías Villalobos, Alberto ^a   Fernández Álvarez, Alfonso ^a   Ibeas, José I ^a  

^a Departamento de Biología Molecular e Ingeniería Bioquímica   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRK1 PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HAP2 PROTEIN; MFA1 PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PAC2 PROTEIN; PHEROMONE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; ROP1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PRF1; TUP1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL LIFE CYCLE STAGE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS DIMORPHISM; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; MATING; MICROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; USTILAGO MAYDIS; YEAST;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; USTILAGO MAYDIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 80053457071     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002235     Document Type: Article

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