Identification of a polyketide synthase gene (pksP) of Aspergillus fumigatus involved in conidial pigment biosynthesis and virulence

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 79-89

  Langfelder, Kim ^a   Jahn, Bernhard ^b   Gehringer, Heike ^a   Schmidt, Axel ^c   Wanner, Gerhard ^a   Brakhage, Axel A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Institut für Chemotherapie   (Germany)

^d DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aspergillus fumigatus; Conidia; Pigment; Polyketide synthase; Virulence

Indexed keywords

REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SYNTHETASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; EXON; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; INTRON; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BASE SEQUENCE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0031730240     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004300050077     Document Type: Article

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