BZIP transcription factor SmJLB1 regulates autophagy-related genes Smatg8 and Smatg4 and is required for fruiting-body development and vegetative growth in Sordaria macrospora

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 61, Issue , 2013, Pages 50-60

  Voigt, Oliver ^a   Herzog, Britta ^a   Jakobshagen, Antonia ^a   Pöggeler, Stefanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autophagy; BZIP transcription factor; Fruiting body development; Sordaria macrospora

Indexed keywords

BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR JIBA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SMJLB1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; AUTOPHAGOSOME; AUTOPHAGY; CELL NUCLEUS; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EGFP GENE; FRUITING BODY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIABILITY; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SMATG4 GENE; SMATG8 GENE; SORDARIA MACROSPORA; UPREGULATION;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; EUKARYOTA; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; SORDARIA MACROSPORA;

AUTOPHAGY; BZIP TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FRUITING-BODY DEVELOPMENT; SORDARIA MACROSPORA;

AUTOPHAGY; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; FRUITING BODIES, FUNGAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SORDARIALES;

EID: 84887815448     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2013.09.006     Document Type: Article

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