A regulator of Aspergillus fumigatus extracellular proteolytic activity is dispensable for virulence

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4041-4050

  Bergmann, Anna ^a   Hartmann, Thomas ^a   Cairns, Timothy ^b   Bignell, Elaine M ^b   Krappmann, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 2ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PRTT GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CELLS, CULTURED; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 69049101198     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00425-09     Document Type: Article

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