The VELVET a orthologue VEL1 of trichoderma reesei regulates fungal development and is essential for cellulase gene expression

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Aghcheh, Razieh Karimi ^a   Németh, Zoltán ^b   Atanasova, Lea ^a   Fekete, Erzsébet ^b   Paholcsek, Melinda ^c   Sándor, Erzsébet ^d   Aquino, Benigno ^a   Druzhinina, Irina S ^a   Karaffa, Levente ^b   Kubicek, Christian P ^a,e  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^d Institute of Food Science   (Hungary)

^e AUSTRIAN CENTRE OF INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLOBIOSE; CELLULASE; CELLULOSE; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; LACTOSE; PROTEIN VEL1; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SOPHOROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE; XYLANASE REGULATOR 1; CARBON; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HEMICELLULOSE; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYPOCREA JECORINA; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; VEL1 GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; TRICHODERMA;

HYPOCREA JECORINA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARBON; CELLULASE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; LACTOSE; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYSACCHARIDES; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 84914695508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112799     Document Type: Article

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