Serine proteases and metalloproteases associated with pathogenesis but not host specificity in the Entomophthoralean fungus Zoophthora radicans

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 550-559

  Xu, J ^a,b   Baldwin, D ^a   Kindrachuk, C ^a   Hegedus, D D ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Entomopathogen; Host specificity; Metalloprotease; Pathogenesis; Serine protease; Zoophthora radicans

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCES; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYMES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PATHOLOGY; PULMONARY DISEASES;

ENTOMOPATHOGEN; HOST SPECIFICITY; METALLOPROTEASE; PATHOGENESIS; SERINE PROTEASE; ZOOPHTHORA RADICANS;

FUNGI;

METALLOPROTEINASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SERINE PROTEINASE; TRYPTASE; ZINC;

BUTTERFLY; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; HOST SPECIFICITY; LARVA; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENTOMOPATHOGENY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME REGULATION; FUNGUS; GENE ISOLATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VERTICILLIUM DAHLIAE; ZOOPHTHORA RADICANS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; ENTOMOPHTHORALES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INSECTS; ISOENZYMES; METALLOPROTEASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS;

ENTOMOPHTHORALES; FUNGI; PIERIS BRASSICAE; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; VERTICILLIUM DAHLIAE; ZOOPHTHORA RADICANS;

EID: 33747517163     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/W06-004     Document Type: Article

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