Functional and phylogenetic analysis of the aspergillus ochraceoroseus aflQ (ordA) gene ortholog

Mycologia

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 857-864

  Cary, Jeffrey W ^a   Harris Coward, Pamela Y ^a   Ehrlich, Kenneth C ^a   Moore, Geromy G ^a   Wei, Qijian ^a   Bhatnagar, Deepak ^a  

^a SOUTHERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aflatoxin; Aspergillus ochraceoroseus; Gene cluster; Mycotoxin; Oxidoreductase

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; HOMOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN; TAXONOMY; TOXIN;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS OCHRACEOROSEUS; ASPERGILLUS PARASITICUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

AFLATOXIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; O METHYLSTERIGMATOCYSTIN; O-METHYLSTERIGMATOCYSTIN; OMTA PROTEIN, ASPERGILLUS; PRIMER DNA; STERIGMATOCYSTIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AFLATOXINS; ASPERGILLUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STERIGMATOCYSTIN; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84866241824     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/11-328     Document Type: Article

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