Air-liquid biofilm formation is dependent on ammonium depletion in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae flor strain

Yeast

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 809-814

  Zara, Giacomo ^a   Budroni, Marilena ^a   Mannazzu, Ilaria ^a   Zara, Severino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ammonium sulphate; FLO11; RAS2; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM SULFATE; FLO11 PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; RAPAMYCIN; RAS2 PROTEIN; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIR LIQUID INTERFACIAL BIOFILM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BIOFILMS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RAS PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIROLIMUS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 83055181147     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: 10970061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1907     Document Type: Article

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