Relevance of Trehalose in Pathogenicity: Some General Rules, Yet Many Exceptions

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Tournu, Hélène ^a,b   Fiori, Alessandro ^a,b   Van Dijck, Patrick ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; LIPID; TREHALOSE;

ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL VIABILITY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GERMINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; LUNG DISEASE; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MORPHOGENESIS; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENICITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; TISSUE INJURY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA; PLANT DISEASES; TREHALOSE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84883381067     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003447     Document Type: Article

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