The AMT1 arginine methyltransferase gene is important for plant infection and normal hyphal growth in fusarium graminearum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Guanghui ^a,b   Wang, Chenfang ^a   Hou, Rui ^a   Zhou, Xiaoying ^b   Li, Guotian ^b   Zhang, Shijie ^a   Xu, Jin Rong ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FGHOG1 PROTEIN; GPMK1 PROTEIN; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; HRP1 PROTEIN; MGV1 PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MYCOTOXIN; NAB2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HMT1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; PRMT2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMT1 GENE; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOWERING; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; FUNGAL REPRODUCTION; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS MUTANT; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLEIOTROPY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPRODUCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; VEGETATIVE GROWTH; WHEAT; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYMOLOGY; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA ZEAE; HORDEUM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HUMANS; HYPHAE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT DISEASES; PROTEIN-ARGININE N-METHYLTRANSFERASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERE; TRITICUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84861706662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038324     Document Type: Article

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