Transcriptional and proteomic analysis of the aspergillus fumigatus δprtt protease-deficient mutant

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Hagag, Shelly ^a   Kubitschek Barreira, Paula ^b   Neves, Gabriela W P ^b   Amar, David ^a   Nierman, William ^c   Shalit, Itamar ^a   Shamir, Ron ^a   Lopes Bezerra, Leila ^b   Osherov, Nir ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b The Roberto Alcantara Gomes Institute of Biology   (Brazil)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERGOSTEROL; IRON; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; MYCOTOXIN; PROTEINASE; PSEUROTIN A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PRTT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME RELEASE; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL METABOLISM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; IRON TRANSPORT; METABOLITE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PRTT GENE; STEROL SYNTHESIS; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEOMICS;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGI;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 84859724704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033604     Document Type: Article

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