The putative guanine nucleotide exchange factor RicA mediates upstream signaling for growth and development in Aspergillus

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1399-1412

  Kwon, Nak Jung ^a,d   Park, Hee Soo ^a   Jung, Seunho ^b   Kim, Sun Chang ^c   Yu, Jae Hyuk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^d Macrogen Inc   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PKAA PROTEIN, ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORES, FUNGAL; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

EID: 84868136935     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00255-12     Document Type: Article

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