AgtA, the dicarboxylic amino acid transporter of Aspergillus nidulans, is concertedly down-regulated by exquisite sensitivity to nitrogen metabolite repression and ammonium-elicited endocytosis

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 339-352

  Apostolaki, Angeliki ^a,e   Erpapazoglou, Zoi ^b,f   Harispe, Laura ^a,c,g   Billini, Maria ^b   Kafasla, Panagiota ^b,h   Kizis, Dimosthenis ^b,i   Peñalva, Miguel Angel ^c   Scazzocchio, Claudio ^a,d   Sophianopoulou, Vicky ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^f INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^g Metrology Section   (Uruguay)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; DICARBOXYLIC AMINO ACID; FUNGAL PROTEIN; NITROGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CHEMISTRY; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOCYTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; AMINO ACIDS, DICARBOXYLIC; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DOWN-REGULATION; ENDOCYTOSIS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

EID: 61949240930     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00270-08     Document Type: Article

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