Global transcriptome changes underlying colony growth in the opportunistic human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 68-78

  Gibbons, John G ^a   Beauvais, Anne ^b   Beau, Remi ^b   McGary, Kriston L ^a   Latgé, Jean Paul ^b   Rokas, Antonis ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BIOFILM; CELL WALL; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GLYCOLYSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BIOFILMS; CELL WALL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GLYCOLYSIS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGI;

EID: 80054093382     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.05102-11     Document Type: Article

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