The two-component sensor kinase TcsC and its role in stress resistance of the human-pathogenic mold aspergillus fumigatus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  McCormick, Allison ^a   Jacobsen, Ilse D ^b   Broniszewska, Marzena ^a   Beck, Julia ^a   Heesemann, Jürgen ^a   Ebel, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIVALENT CATION; FARNESOL; FLUDIOXONIL; FUNGICIDE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; SAKA KINASE; SENSOR KINASE TCSC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 1,3 DIOXOLANE DERIVATIVE; CYCLIC AMP; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN-HISTIDINE KINASE; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; FUNGAL METABOLISM; FUNGAL VIABILITY; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGICIDAL ACTIVITY; FUNGICIDE RESISTANCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; HIGH OSMOLARITY GLYCEROL PATHWAY; HYPEROSMOTIC STRESS; HYPOXIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SPOROGENESIS; ANIMAL; ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; ASPERGILLOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGI;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CYCLIC AMP; DIOXOLES; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LIGHT; MICE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PYRROLES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84861848617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038262     Document Type: Article

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