High-affinity glucose transport in Aspergillus nidulans is mediated by the products of two related but differentially expressed genes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Forment, Josep V ^a,b   Flipphi, Michel ^a,c   Ventura, Luisa ^a   González, Ramón ^a,d   Ramón, Daniel ^a,e   MacCabe, Andrew P ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE AGROQUÍMICA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE ALIMENTOS CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY OF THE CELL I2BC   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBON SOURCE; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL SPORE GERMINATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE PROBE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; MSTA GENE; MSTC GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT PROTEINS, FACILITATIVE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SPORES, FUNGAL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84899685444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094662     Document Type: Article

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