Adaptation to high salt concentrations in halotolerant/halophilic fungi: A molecular perspective

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Plemenitaš, Ana ^a   Lenassi, Metka ^a   Konte, Tilen ^a   Kejžar, Anja ^a   Zajc, Janja ^a   Gostinčar, Cene ^b   Gunde Cimerman, Nina ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^c Centre of Excellence for Integrated Approaches in Chemistry and Biology of Proteins (CIPKeBiP)   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Halophilic halotolerant fungi; HOG signaling pathway; Hortaea werneckii genome; Ion homeostasis; Wallemia ichthyophaga genome

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; HYDROPHOBIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SH3; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AGARICUS BISPORUS; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BASIDIOMYCETES; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FUNGAL MATING TYPE GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORTAEA WERNECKII; HYPEROSMOLARITY; HYPEROSMOTIC STRESS; MELOIDOGYNE GRAMINICOLA; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SALT TOLERANCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WALLEMIA ICHTHYOPHAGA;

EID: 84904887067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00199     Document Type: Review

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