d-galactose uptake is nonfunctional in the conidiospores of Aspergillus niger

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 329, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 198-203

  Fekete, Erzsébet ^a   De Vries, Ronald P ^b,c   Seiboth, Bernhard ^d   VanKuyk, Patricia A ^b,e   Sándor, Erzsébet ^f   Fekete, Éva ^a   Metz, Benjamin ^d,g   Kubicek, Christian P ^d   Karaffa, Levente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^g DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aspergillus niger; d galactose; Germination; Leloir pathway; Uptake

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; GALACTOKINASE; GALACTOSE; GALACTOSE I PHOSPHATE URIDYLYL TRANSFERASE; HEXOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 4 EPIMERASE; XYLOSE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL GENE; GALD GENE; GALE GENE; GALF GENE; GALG GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GPMB GENE; HEXOSE TRANSPORT; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; FERMENTATION; GALACTOSE; GLYCOLYSIS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

ASCOMYCOTA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER;

EID: 84858706704     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2012.02524.x     Document Type: Article

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