Ambient pH Controls Glycogen Levels by Regulating Glycogen Synthase Gene Expression in Neurospora crassa. New Insights into the pH Signaling Pathway

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Cupertino, Fernanda Barbosa ^a   Freitas, Fernanda Zanolli ^a   de Paula, Renato Magalhães ^b   Bertolini, Maria Célia ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b NALCO COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; GLYCOGEN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PACC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOGEN METABOLISM; HEAT STRESS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PH; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE STRESS;

ACIDS; ALKALIES; BINDING SITES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, FUNGAL; GLYCOGEN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84865651923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044258     Document Type: Article

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