Small chemical chromatin effectors alter secondary metabolite production in Aspergillus clavatus

Toxins

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1723-1741

  Zutz, Christoph ^a   Gacek, Agnieszka ^b   Sulyok, Michael ^b   Wagner, Martin ^a   Strauss, Joseph ^b,c   Rychli, Kathrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

5 azacytidin; Aspergillus clavatus; Chromatin; HDAC inhibitors; Mycotoxins; Nitrogen; Secondary metabolites

Indexed keywords

AZACITIDINE; BREVIANAMID F; BUTYRIC ACID; CASEIN; CYTOCHALASIN E; MYCOTOXIN; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; ORGANIC NITROGEN; PATULIN; PSEUROTIN A; TERRITREM B; TRICHOSTATIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS CLAVATUS; BIOACCUMULATION; CCSA GENE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL METABOLISM; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PATK GENE; PSOA GENE; SOYBEAN; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; ASPERGILLUS; AZACITIDINE; BUTYRATES; CHROMATIN; CYTOCHALASINS; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS; HYDROXAMIC ACIDS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; PATULIN; PEPTONES; PYRROLIDINONES; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 84886527736     PISSN: 20726651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins5101723     Document Type: Article

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