Heme-biosynthetic porphobilinogen deaminase protects Aspergillus nidulans from nitrosative stress

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 103-109

  Zhou, Shengmin ^a   Narukami, Toshiaki ^a   Nameki, Misuzu ^a   Ozawa, Tomoko ^a   Kamimura, Yosuke ^a   Hoshino, Takayuki ^a   Takaya, Naoki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; FUNGAL GENES; FUNGAL GROWTH; GENOMIC DNA; HEME BIOSYNTHESIS; HEMOPROTEINS; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROSATIVE STRESS; PORPHOBILINOGEN; PROTOHEME; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; TRANSFORMANTS;

ASPERGILLUS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENES; NITRIC OXIDE; TRANSCRIPTION;

PORPHYRINS;

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HEME; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; PORPHOBILINOGEN DEAMINASE; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; NITROGEN; PROTEIN; TOLERANCE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HEME; HYDROXYMETHYLBILANE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

EID: 84855646158     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06195-11     Document Type: Article

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