A novel functional assay for fungal histidine kinases group III reveals the role of HAMP domains for fungicide sensitivity

Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 268-277

  Buschart, Anna ^a   Gremmer, Katja ^a   El Mowafy, Mohammed ^a   van den Heuvel, Joop ^a   Mueller, Peter P ^a   Bilitewski, Ursula ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ambruticin; Differential growth inhibition assay; Fludioxonil; Hog1 pathway; Two component signal transduction system

Indexed keywords

AMBRUTICIN; DIFFERENTIAL GROWTH INHIBITION ASSAY; FLUDIOXONIL; HOG1 PATHWAY; TWO-COMPONENT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; BACTERIOPHAGES; ENZYMES; FUNGI; FUNGICIDES; GENE EXPRESSION; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACIDS;

AMBRUTICIN; AMINO ACID; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FLUDIOXONIL; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGICIDE; HAMP PROTEIN; HOG1 PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE CANIK1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGICIDAL ACTIVITY; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DIOXOLES; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PROTEIN KINASES; PYRANS; PYRROLES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 84855243541     PISSN: 01681656     EISSN: 18734863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2011.09.017     Document Type: Article

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