Gliotoxin production in Aspergillus fumigatus contributes to host-specific differences in virulence

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 197, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 479-486

  Spikes, Sara ^a   Xu, Ran ^a   Nguyen, C Kim ^a   Chamilos, Georgios ^a   Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P ^a   Jacobson, Raymond H ^a   Ejzykowicz, Daniele E ^b   Chiang, Lisa Y ^b   Filler, Scott G ^b,c   May, Gregory S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GLIOTOXIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; SUPEROXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYST; CELL CULTURE; DELETION MUTANT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; HOST RANGE; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE DELETION; GLIOTOXIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 39349096343     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/525044     Document Type: Article

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