Functional Analysis of the Aspergillus nidulans Kinome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  De Souza, Colin P ^a   Hashmi, Shahr B ^a   Osmani, Aysha H ^a   Andrews, Peter ^b   Ringelberg, Carol S ^b   Dunlap, Jay C ^b   Osmani, Stephen A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL ENZYME; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; ORB6 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; SERINE ARGININE RICH PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL MIGRATION; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; FUNGAL CELL WALL; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE DELETION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROKARYON; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOTIC STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE DELETION; GENE ORDER; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, FUNGAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN KINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84874744518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058008     Document Type: Article

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