Molecular cloning, characterization and differential expression of Cdc42 in Fonsecaea monophora

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 839-844

  Xie, Zhi ^a,b   Feng, Peiying ^a   Zhang, Junming ^a   Li, Xiqing ^a   Sun, Jiufeng ^a   Lu, Changming ^a   Huang, Huaiqiu ^a   Xi, Liyan ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Dermatology   (China)

Author keywords

Cdc42; Characterization; Differential expression; Fonsecaea monophora; Gene cloning

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL DNA; GENOMIC DNA; PROTEIN CDC42; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONIDIUM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FONSECAEA; FONSECAEA MONOPHORA; FUNGUS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; INTRON; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VERO CELL; WANGIELLA DERMATITIDIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ASCOMYCETES; BIOLOGY; CERCOPITHECUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; EXOPHIALA; EXOPHIALA DERMATITIDIS; FONSECAEA MONOPHORA; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VERO CELLS;

EID: 84860323649     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-011-0806-2     Document Type: Article

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