Oligopeptide transport and regulation of extracellular proteolysis are required for growth of Aspergillus fumigatus on complex substrates but not for virulence

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 917-935

  Hartmann, Thomas ^a,d   Cairns, Timothy C ^c   Olbermann, Patrick ^a   Morschhäuser, Joachim ^b   Bignell, Elaine M ^c   Krappmann, Sven ^a  

^a Research Center for Infectious Diseases   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PEPTIDASE; PROTEINASE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL METABOLISM; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; OLIGOPEPTIDE TRANSPORT; OPT GENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PRTT GENE; SWINE; TRANSPORT KINETICS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CULTURE MEDIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MICE; NITROGEN; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEOLYSIS; VIRULENCE;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; MURINAE; SUS;

EID: 80855143687     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07868.x     Document Type: Article

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