Trehalose synthesis in Aspergillus niger: Characterization of six homologous genes, all with conserved orthologs in related species

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Svanström, Åsa ^a   Van Leeuwen, Martin Richard ^b   Dijksterhuis, Jan ^b   Melin, Petter ^a,c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c Swedish Chemicals Agency   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ascomycota; Conidia; Germination; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Stress resistance; Targeted gene deletion

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID; PHOSPHATASE; TREHALOSE; TREHALOSE 6 PHOSPHATE SYNTHETASE; TREHALOSE PHOSPHATE PHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONIDIUM; DELETION MUTANT; DNA SYNTHESIS; EXTRACTION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GERMINATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPOROGENESIS; STRESS; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE STRESS; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

ASCOMYCOTA; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, FUNGAL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TREHALOSE; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84899475044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-14-90     Document Type: Article

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