Signature-tagged and directed mutagenesis identify PABA synthetase as essential for Aspergillus fumigatus pathogenicity

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1371-1380

  Brown, Jeremy S ^a   Aufauvre Brown, Agnès ^a   Brown, Juliane ^a   Jennings, Joanne M ^a   Arst Jr , Herbert ^a   Holden, David W ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FOLIC ACID; FUNGAL ENZYME; SYNTHETASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE INSERTION; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; MALE; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, FUNGAL; MALE; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; TRANSAMINASES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033920913     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01953.x     Document Type: Article

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