Hydrophilins in the filamentous fungus Neosartorya fischeri (Aspergillus fischeri) have protective activity against several types of microbial water stress

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 45-52

  van Leeuwen, M R ^a   Wyatt, T T ^a   van Doorn, T M ^a   Lugones, L G ^b   Wosten H A B ^b   Dijksterhuis, J ^a  

^a CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

DEHYDRATION; DROUGHT; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HEAT; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEOSARTORYA; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEHYDRATION; DROUGHTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOT TEMPERATURE; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; NEOSARTORYA; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84958929700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12349     Document Type: Article

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