The Ca2+/calcineurin-dependent signaling pathway in the gray mold botrytis cinerea: The role of calcipressin in modulating calcineurin activity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Harren, Karin ^a   Schumacher, Julia ^a   Tudzynski, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; CALCIPRESSIN; CALCIUM ION; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CALCIUM; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BCCNA GENE; BCRCN1 GENE; BIOACCUMULATION; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME REGULATION; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGAL SCLEROTIUM; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOULD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; BOTRYTIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION; OSMOLARITY; PATHOGENICITY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; FUNGI;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BOTRYTIS; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM; CELL NUCLEUS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MUTATION; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84864243783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041761     Document Type: Article

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