The Role, Interaction and Regulation of the Velvet Regulator VelB in Aspergillus nidulans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Park, Hee Soo ^a   Ni, Min ^a,c   Jeong, Kwang Cheol ^a,d   Kim, Young Hwan ^b   Yu, Jae Hyuk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI)   (South Korea)

^c University of Florida ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ABAA GENE; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL SPORE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BIOGENESIS; BRLA GENE; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL SPORE GERMINATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPOROGENESIS; VELB GENE; VOSA GENE;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CULTURE MEDIA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPORES, FUNGAL; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TREHALOSE;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

EID: 84866705322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045935     Document Type: Article

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