Autophagy vitalizes the pathogenicity of pathogenic fungi

Autophagy

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1415-1425

  Liu, Xiao Hong ^a   Gao, Hui Min ^a   Xu, Fei ^c   Lu, Jian Ping ^b   Devenish, Rodney J ^d   Lin, Fu Cheng ^a,e  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION AND MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Zhengzhou Tobacco Institute of CNTC   (China)

Author keywords

Appressorium; Autophagy; Autophagy related (ATG) genes; Infection structure; Pathogenicity d

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYDROPHOBIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN AUTOPHAGY RELATED GENE1; PROTEIN AUTOPHAGY RELATED GENE13; PROTEIN AUTOPHAGY RELATED GENE17; PROTEIN AUTOPHAGY RELATED GENE18; PROTEIN AUTOPHAGY RELATED GENE8; PROTEIN AUTOPHAGY RELATED GENE9; PROTEIN NSF; PROTEIN SEC17; PROTEIN SEC18; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE VPS15; PROTEIN SNF1 KINASE COMPLEX; PROTEIN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; PROTEIN VAM3; PROTEIN VAM7; PROTEIN VTI1; PROTEIN YKT6; PROTEIN YPT7; RAB PROTEIN; SNARE PROTEIN; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

APPRESSORIUM; AUTOPHAGOSOME; AUTOPHAGY; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TURGOR; CELL WALL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONIDIUM; DISEASE CONTROL; DOWN REGULATION; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MAGNAPORTHE; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; RUST (PLANT DISEASE); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM; TURGOR PRESSURE; UBIQUITINATION; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

EID: 84867269837     PISSN: 15548627     EISSN: 15548635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/auto.21274     Document Type: Review

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