Active Internalization of the Penicillium chrysogenum Antifungal Protein PAF in Sensitive Aspergilli

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3598-3601

  Oberparleiter, Christoph ^a   Kaiserer, Lydia ^a   Haas, Hubertus ^a   Ladurner, Peter ^a   Andratsch, Manfred ^a   Marx, Florentine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; LATRUNCULIN B; PROTEIN PAF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ENDOCYTOSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTERNALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLUS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; CYTOPLASM; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; THIAZOLES; THIAZOLIDINES;

EID: 0242290942     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.47.11.3598-3601.2003     Document Type: Article

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