GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase is essential for cell wall integrity, morphogenesis and viability of Aspergillus fumigatus

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2730-2739

  Jiang, Hechun ^a   Ouyang, Haomiao ^a   Zhou, Hui ^a   Jin, Cheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE MANNOSE PYROPHOSPHORYLASE; PHOSPHORYLASE; PROTEIN AFSRB1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL DNA; MANNOSE 1 PHOSPHATE GUANYLYLTRANSFERASE; MANNOSE 1-PHOSPHATE GUANYLYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CELL WALL; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGAL SPORE GERMINATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIABILITY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CELL WALL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, FUNGAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 53449096114     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/019240-0     Document Type: Article

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