The Aspergillus fumigatus metacaspases CasA and CasB facilitate growth under conditions of endoplasmic reticulum stress

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 591-604

  Richie, Daryl L ^a   Miley, Michael D ^a   Bhabhra, Ruchi ^a   Robson, Geoffrey D ^b   Rhodes, Judith C ^a   Askew, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; METACASPASE YCA1P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CASA GENE; CASB GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; FEMALE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; HOMEOSTASIS; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CASPASES; DEOXYGLUCOSE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DITHIOTHREITOL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; MICE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUNICAMYCIN; VIRULENCE;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS;

EID: 33846104387     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05534.x     Document Type: Article

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