Calcium-mediated induction of paradoxical growth following caspofungin treatment is associated with calcineurin activation and phosphorylation in Aspergillus fumigatus

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4946-4955

  Juvvadi, Praveen R ^a   Muñoz, Alberto ^b   Lamoth, Frédéric ^a,c   Soderblom, Erik J ^b   Moseley, M Arthur ^d   Read, Nick D ^b   Steinbach, William J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; AEQUORIN; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM ION; CALMODULIN; CASPOFUNGIN; ECHINOCANDIN; ETHYLENE GLYCOL 1,2 BIS(2 AMINOPHENYL) ETHER N,N,N',N' TETRAACETIC ACID; MICAFUNGIN; PROLINE; SERINE; VERAPAMIL; 1,2-BIS(2-AMINOPHENOXY)ETHANE-N,N,N',N'-TETRAACETIC ACID; ANIDULAFUNGIN; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CALCIUM; EGTAZIC ACID; FUNGAL PROTEIN; LIPOPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CODON; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLINE RICH PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEOMICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM; ECHINOCANDINS; EGTAZIC ACID; FUNGAL PROTEINS; LIPOPEPTIDES; PHOSPHORYLATION;

EID: 84939825763     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00263-15     Document Type: Article

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