Antifungal protein PAF severely affects the integrity of the plasma membrane of Aspergillus nidulans and induces an apoptosis-like phenotype

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2445-2453

  Leiter, Éva ^a   Szappanos, Henrietta ^b   Oberparleiter, Christoph ^c   Kaiserer, Lydia ^c   Csernoch, László ^b   Pusztahelyi, Tünde ^a   Emri, Tamás ^a   Pócsi, István ^a   Salvenmoser, Willibald ^d   Marx, Florentine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

4 [2 (6 DIOCTYLAMINO) 2 NAPHTHALENYL]ETHENYL] 1 (3 SULFOPROPYL)PYRIDINIUM; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL PROTEIN PAF; CYSTEINE; DICHLORODIHYDROFLUORESCEIN DIACETATE; FUNGAL DNA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; LIPOCORTIN 5; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PYRIDINIUM DERIVATIVE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFECT; FADA GENE; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTOPLAST; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MITOCHONDRIA; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PHENOTYPE; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 21144452244     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.6.2445-2453.2005     Document Type: Article

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