Transcriptional profiling identifies a role for BrlA in the response to nitrogen depletion and for StuA in the regulation of secondary metabolite clusters in Aspergillus fumigatus

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 104-115

  Twumasi Boateng, Kwame ^a,d   Yu, Yan ^b   Chen, Dan ^b   Gravelat, Fabrice N ^a   Nierman, William C ^b   Sheppard, Donald C ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Lyman Duff Medical Building ^*  (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; NITROGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION; RIBOSOME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MUTATION; NITROGEN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RIBOSOMES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGI;

EID: 58149343558     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00265-08     Document Type: Article

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