Flexible metabolism in Metarhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana: Role of the glyoxylate cycle during insect pathogenesis

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 199-208

  Padilla Guerrero, Israel Enrique ^a,b   Barelli, Larissa ^b   González Hernández, Gloria Angélica ^a   Torres Guzmán, Juan Carlos ^a   Bidochka, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUANAJUATO   (Mexico)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ACONITATE HYDRATASE; ALCOHOL; CITRATE SYNTHASE; GLYOXYLIC ACID; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE; ISOCITRATE LYASE; MALATE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; BEAUVERIA BASSIANA; BLOOD CELL; CARBON METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL METABOLISM; FUNGAL SPORE GERMINATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BEAUVERIA; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, REPORTER; GLYOXYLATES; HEMOLYMPH; INSECTS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METARHIZIUM;

CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE;

EID: 78650754520     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.042697-0     Document Type: Article

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