Ability to grow on lipids accounts for the fully virulent phenotype in neutropenic mice of Aspergillus fumigatus null mutants in the key glyoxylate cycle enzymes

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-60

  Olivas, Israel ^a   Royuela, Mar ^a   Romero, Beatriz ^a   Monteiro, M Cândida ^a   Mínguez, José M ^a   Laborda, Fernando ^a   Lucas, J Ramón De ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aspergillus fumigatus; Glyoxylate cycle; Invasive aspergillosis; Isocitrate lyase; Lipids; Malate synthase; pyr 4 gene; Transformation marker; Virulence

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL ENZYME; GLYOXYLIC ACID; ISOCITRATE LYASE; LIPID; MALATE SYNTHASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DELETION; MOUSE; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CULTURE MEDIA; GLYOXYLATES; ISOCITRATE LYASE; LIPIDS; MALATE SYNTHASE; MALE; MICE; NEUTROPENIA; POINT MUTATION; VIRULENCE;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGI; MUS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 36048935085     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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