Carboxylate transporter gene JEN1 from the entomopathogenic fungus beauveria bassiana Is involved in conidiation and virulence

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 254-263

  Jin, Kai ^a,b   Zhang, Yongjun ^a   Fang, Weiguo ^a   Luo, Zhibing ^a   Zhou, Yonghong ^a   Pei, Yan ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAUVERIA BASSIANA; BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; CARBOXYLATE CONTENTS; CONIDIATION; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGUS; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGUS BEAUVERIA BASSIANA; INSECT CUTICLE; INSECT PEST; OVER-EXPRESSION; PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSPORTER GENES; WILD TYPES;

BIOASSAY; CARBOXYLATION; DNA; GENE ENCODING;

INSECT CONTROL;

CARBOXYLIC ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN; COTRANSPORTER; JEN1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ALKALINIZATION; APHID; BIOASSAY; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIOPESTICIDE; CUTICLE; DNA; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; GENE EXPRESSION; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE; YEAST;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; BEAUVERIA; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SURVIVAL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BEAUVERIA; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MONOCARBOXYLIC ACID TRANSPORTERS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPORES, FUNGAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYMPORTERS; VIRULENCE;

APHIDIDAE; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 76149093203     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00882-09     Document Type: Article

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