Molecular cloning, characterization and differential expression of a Sporothrix schenckii STE20-like protein kinase SsSte20

International Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1343-1348

  Zhang, Zhenying ^a   Hou, Binbin ^a   Zheng, Fangliang ^b   Yu, Xiaohong ^a   Liu, Xiaoming ^a  

^a DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LIAONING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Differential expression; Gene cloning; Sporothrix schenckii; SsSte20

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL ENZYME; GENOMIC DNA; PROTEIN SSSTE20; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; INTRON; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN KINASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPOROTHRIX;

EID: 84876397744     PISSN: 11073756     EISSN: 1791244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2013.1352     Document Type: Article

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