Screening for antifungal peptides and their modes of action in Aspergillus nidulans

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 7102-7108

  Mania, Daniel ^a   Hilpert, Kai ^a   Ruden, Serge ^a   Fischer, Reinhard ^a   Takeshita, Norio ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-BACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTI-FUNGAL; ANTI-FUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTI-MICROBIAL AGENT; ANTIBACTERIAL AGENT; ANTIBACTERIAL PEPTIDES; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BRANCH FORMATION; CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CELLULOSE MEMBRANES; CYTOPLASMIC MEMBRANE; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT ASSAYS; HYPHAL TIP; MEMBRANE DOMAIN; MICROTITER PLATES; MODE OF ACTION; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; POLARIZED GROWTH; SCREENING METHODS; TIP GROWTH;

AMINO ACIDS; CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; DYES; FUNGI; MEMBRANES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

PEPTIDES;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; CATION; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MYCELIUM; PHENOTYPE; PROTOPLAST;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; HYPHAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MYCELIUM; PHENOTYPE; PROTOPLASTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

EID: 78149439531     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01560-10     Document Type: Article

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