Methylcitrate synthase from Aspergillus nidulans: Implications for propionate as an antifungal agent

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 961-973

  Brock, Matthias ^a   Fischer, Reinhard ^a,b   Linder, Dietmar ^c   Buckel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBON; CITRATE SYNTHASE; COENZYME A; FUNGAL ENZYME; GLUCOSE; METHYL GROUP; PIGMENT; POLYKETIDE; PROPIONIC ACID; PROPIONYL COENZYME A; PYRUVIC ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GROWTH INHIBITION; INTRON; METABOLISM; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, FUNGAL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE DELETION; GLUCOSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROPIONIC ACIDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMERICELLA NIDULANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 0034095188     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01737.x     Document Type: Article

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