The cell wall stress response in Aspergillus niger involves increased expression of the glutamine: Fructose-6-phosphate amidotransferase-encoding gene (gfaA) and increased deposition of chitin in the cell wall

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 3315-3326

  Ram, Arthur F J ^a,b   Arentshorst, Mark ^a   Damveld, Robbert A ^a   vanKuyk, Patricia A ^a   Klis, Frans M ^c   van den Hondel, Cees A M J J ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; GLUCOSAMINE; GLUTAMINE FRUCTOSE 6 PHOSPHATE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DELETION MUTANT; FOOD SPOILAGE; FUNGAL CELL CULTURE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STRESS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CELL WALL; CHITIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GLUCOSAMINE; GLUTAMINE-FRUCTOSE-6-PHOSPHATE TRANSAMINASE (ISOMERIZING); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 6444241905     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27249-0     Document Type: Article

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