Stress response signaling and virulence: insights from entomopathogenic fungi

Current Genetics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 239-249

  Ortiz Urquiza, Almudena ^a   Keyhani, Nemat O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beauveria; cAMP PKA; Entomopathogenic fungi; MAP kinase; Metarhizium; Osmotic stress; Oxidative stress; Signaling pathways; Stress response; Transcription factors; Virulence

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RGS PROTEIN; TETRASPANIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ABIOTIC STRESS; BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL WALL; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGUS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VIRULENCE; ANIMAL; FUNGUS; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BEAUVERIA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; METARHIZIUM;

ANIMALS; FUNGI; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INSECTS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MYCOSES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84937974047     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: 14320983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-014-0439-9     Document Type: Review

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