The Aspergillus fumigatus cell wall is organized in domains that are remodelled during polarity establishment

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 3261-3268

  Momany, Michelle ^a   Lindsey, Rebecca ^a   Hill, Terry W ^b   Richardson, Elizabeth A ^a   Momany, Cory ^a   Pedreira, Michael ^a   Guest, Gretel M ^a,d   Fisher, John F ^c   Hessler, Richard B ^c   Roberts, Kathy A ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b RHODES COLLEGE   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d Alamance Community College   (United States)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANION; CATALASE; EPITOPE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GOLD; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MUTANT PROTEIN; SILVER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL ISOLATION; CELL POLARITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL WALL; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIMENTATION; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SILVER STAINING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POLARITY; CELL SIZE; CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MORPHOGENESIS;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

EID: 6444243989     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27318-0     Document Type: Article

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