Article
Extracellular matrix protein gene, EMP1, is required for appressorium formation and pathogenicity of the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe grisea.
Molecules and cells - 29 Feb 2004
Ahn Namsook, Kim Soonok, Choi Woobong, Im Kyung-Hwan, Lee Yong-Hwan
Abstract excerpt
Magnaporthe grisea, the causal fungus of rice blast, forms a specialized infection structure called an appressorium that is crucial for host plant penetration. A cDNA clone of M. grisea, showing strong sequence homology to FEM1 of Fusarium oxysporum and encoding an extracellular matrix protein, was isolated during an expressed sequence tag (EST) analysis of an appressorium cDNA library and named extracellular...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Northern
- Cell Adhesion
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA
- DNA, Complementary
- Expressed Sequence Tags
- Extracellular Matrix
- Extracellular Matrix Proteins