Ustilago maydis, the delightful blight.
Recent studies of the corn smut fungus life cycle and its regulation by two mating type loci and other genes provide a cornucopia of challenges in cell biology, genetics and protein structure. The fungus can exist in two states: nonpathogenic and pathogenic. The change from one state to the other is accompanied by a change in morphology (yeast-like to filamentous) and growth properties (saprophytic to parasitic).
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0448, USA.
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D015966:Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D049770:Genes, Mating Type, Fungal; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010941:Plant Tumors / Q000382:microbiology; D012098:Reproduction; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013172:Spores, Fungal; D014588:Ustilago / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology*; D003313:Zea mays / Q000382:microbiology
C094561:BW1 protein, Ustilago maydis; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins