Comparative and functional genomics provide insights into the pathogenicity of dermatophytic fungi

Genome Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Burmester, Anke ^a,b   Shelest, Ekaterina ^a   Glöckner, Gernot ^c   Heddergott, Christoph ^a,b   Schindler, Susann ^a,b   Staib, Peter ^a   Heidel, Andrew ^c   Felder, Marius ^c   Petzold, Andreas ^c   Szafranski, Karol ^c   Feuermann, Marc ^d   Pedruzzi, Ivo ^d   Priebe, Steffen ^a   Groth, Marco ^c   Winkler, Robert ^a,b   Li, Wenjun ^e   Kniemeyer, Olaf ^a   Schroeckh, Volker ^a   Hertweck, Christian ^a,b   Hube, Bernhard ^a,b   White, Theodore C ^f   Platzer, Matthias ^c   Guthke, Reinhard ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a   Wöstemeyer, Johannes ^b   Zipfel, Peter F ^a,b   Monod, Michel ^g   Brakhage, Axel A ^a,b   more..

^a HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLASE; KERATIN; PROTEINASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTHRODERMA; ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHYTE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME RELEASE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KERATINOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRICHOPHYTON VERRUCOSUM; ANIMAL; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; SECRETION;

ANIMALIA; ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; COCCIDIOIDES; FUNGI; ONYGENALES; TRICHOPHYTON VERRUCOSUM;

ANIMALS; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; KERATINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PHYLOGENY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 78651498386     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2011-12-1-r7     Document Type: Article

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