Ras GTPases Modulate Morphogenesis, Sporulation and Cellulase Gene Expression in the Cellulolytic Fungus Trichoderma reesei

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Jiwei ^a   Zhang, Yanmei ^a   Zhong, Yaohua ^a   Qu, Yinbo ^a   Wang, Tianhong ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CELLULASE; CELLULOSE; CYCLIC AMP; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; RAS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CARBON SOURCE; CBH1 GENE; CBH2 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HYPOCREA JECORINA; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAS1 GENE; RAS2 GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

CARBON; CELLULASE; CELLULOSE; CYCLIC AMP; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; RAS PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRICHODERMA;

FUNGI; HYPOCREA JECORINA;

EID: 84869045608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048786     Document Type: Article

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