Effects of a defective endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation pathway on the stress response, virulence, and antifungal drug susceptibility of the mold pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 512-519

  Krishnan, Karthik ^a   Feng, Xizhi ^a   Powers Fletcher, Margaret V ^a   Bick, Gregory ^a   Richie, Daryl L ^a   Woollett, Laura A ^a   Askew, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEASOME; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; TRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; VORICONAZOLE;

ANIMAL; ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CYTOSOL; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM ASSOCIATED DEGRADATION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; PROTEIN FOLDING; SURVIVAL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CYTOSOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM-ASSOCIATED DEGRADATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MICE; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; PROTEIN FOLDING; PYRIMIDINES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRIAZOLES; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; VIRULENCE;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84875529482     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00319-12     Document Type: Article

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