Identification of novel developmentally regulated genes in Encephalitozoon cuniculi: An endochitinase, a chitin-synthase, and two subtilisin-like proteases are induced during meront-to-sporont differentiation

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Rönnebäumer, Karin ^a   Wagener, Jeanette ^a   Gross, Uwe ^a   Bohne, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; CHITINASE; FUNGAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE;

CHITIN; ENZYME; GENE; PROTOZOAN;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOLOGY; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENZYMOLOGY; FIBROBLAST; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CELL LINE; CHITIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; CHITINASE; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HUMANS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SPORES, FUNGAL;

ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI;

EID: 33751354283     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2006.00179.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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