Transportation of aspergillus nidulans class III and V chitin synthases to the hyphal tips depends on conventional kinesin

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Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Takeshita, Norio ^a,c   Wernet, Valentin ^a   Tsuizaki, Makusu ^b   Grün, Nathalie ^a   Hoshi, Hiro Omi ^b   Ohta, Akinori ^b   Fischer, Reinhard ^a   Horiuchi, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE; CHITIN SYNTHASE III; CHITIN SYNTHASE V; CHSB PROTEIN; CSMA PROTEIN; KINESIN; KINESIN 1; KINESIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CHITIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; KINA PROTEIN, ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; KINA GENE; MICROTUBULE; MYOSIN MOTOR LIKE DOMAIN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL WALL; CHITIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; KINESIN; MUTATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 84957580951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125937     Document Type: Article

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