The WOPR Protein Ros1 Is a Master Regulator of Sporogenesis and Late Effector Gene Expression in the Maize Pathogen Ustilago maydis

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Tollot, Marie ^a   Assmann, Daniela ^a   Becker, Christian ^b   Altmüller, Janine ^b   Dutheil, Julien Y ^a,c   Wegner, Carl Eric ^a,d   Kahmann, Regine ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MISMATCH REPAIR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FUNGAL PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL WALL; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DOWN REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL BIOMASS; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; MAIZE; MISMATCH REPAIR; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PLANT TUMOR; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; ROS1 GENE; SECONDARY METABOLISM; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPOROGENESIS; TELIOSPORE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; USTILAGO MAYDIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; USTILAGO; VIRULENCE;

CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MYCOSES; PLANT TUMORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; USTILAGO; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84978109728     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005697     Document Type: Article

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