Transcriptomic and proteomic analyses of the Aspergillus fumigatus hypoxia response using an oxygen-controlled fermenter

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Barker, Bridget M ^a   Kroll, Kristin ^b,c   Vödisch, Martin ^b,c   Mazurie, Aurélien ^a   Kniemeyer, Olaf ^b,c   Cramer, Robert A ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ERGOSTEROL; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEOME; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; SIDEROPHORE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; PEROXIDE; UREA; UREA PEROXIDE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOLYSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IRON METABOLISM; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEOMICS; STEROL METABOLISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ERGOSTEROL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLYCOLYSIS; NAD; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PEROXIDES; PROTEOME; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME; UREA;

EID: 84856569061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-62     Document Type: Article

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