Impact of the lectin chaperone calnexin on the stress response, virulence and proteolytic secretome of the fungal pathogen aspergillus fumigatus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Powers Fletcher, Margaret V ^a   Jambunathan, Kalyani ^b   Brewer, Jordan L ^a   Krishnan, Karthik ^a   Feng, Xizhi ^a   Galande, Amit K ^b   Askew, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALNEXIN; CATION; FUNGAL ENZYME; FUNGAL PROTEIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LECTIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CLXA GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME RELEASE; FEMALE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STARVATION; TEMPERATURE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CALNEXIN; CATIONS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LECTINS; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; TEMPERATURE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 82855168070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028865     Document Type: Article

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