An aureobasidin A resistance gene isolated from Aspergillus is a homolog of yeast AUR1, a gene responsible for inositol phosphorylceramide (IPC) synthase activity

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 290-296

  Kuroda, M ^a   Hashida Okado, T ^a   Yasumoto, R ^a   Gomi, K ^b,c   Kato, I ^a   Takesako, K ^a  

^a TAKARA SHUZO CO LTD   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BREWING   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspergillus fumigatus; Aspergillus nidulans; aurA; Aureobasidin A; Drug resistant mutant

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SYNTHETASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GLYCOSYLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEPSIPEPTIDES; DNA, FUNGAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032992201     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050969     Document Type: Article

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