Banuett F
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0448, USA.
Trends Genet. 1992 May;8(5):174-80. doi: 10.1016/0168-9525(92)90220-x.
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).
最近对玉米黑粉菌生命周期及其受两个交配型基因座和其他基因调控的研究，在细胞生物学、遗传学和蛋白质结构方面带来了大量挑战。该真菌可处于两种状态：非致病性和致病性。从一种状态转变为另一种状态伴随着形态变化（从酵母样变为丝状）和生长特性变化（从腐生变为寄生）。
