β(1-3)glucanosyltransferase Gel4p is essential for Aspergillus fumigatus

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1294-1298

  Gastebois, Amandine ^a   Fontaine, Thierry ^a   Latgé, Jean Paul ^a   Mouyna, Isabelle ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLUCAN ENDO 1,3 BETA GLUCOSIDASE; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ENZYMOLOGY; ESSENTIAL GENE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MYCELIUM; NOTE; PHYLOGENY;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GLUCAN ENDO-1,3-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDASE; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; MYCELIUM; PHYLOGENY;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS;

EID: 77956798136     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00107-10     Document Type: Note

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