Evidence that a wortmannin-sensitive signal transduction pathway regulates aflatoxin biosynthesis

Mycologia

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 562-568

  Lee, Joo Won ^a   Roze, Ludmila V ^b   Linz, John E ^b  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Aflatoxin; Aspergillus parasiticus; Phosphatidyl inositol (PI) 3 kinase; Phosphodiesterase; Signal transduction; Wortmannin

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN B1; ANDROSTANE DERIVATIVE; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MYCOTOXIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; WORTMANNIN;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLITE; PROTEIN; SPORULATION; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; AFLATOXIN B1; ANDROSTADIENES; ASPERGILLUS; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MYCOTOXINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ASPERGILLUS PARASITICUS;

EID: 36048947244     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/mycologia.99.4.562     Document Type: Article

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