Exploration of sulfur assimilation of Aspergillus fumigatus reveals biosynthesis of sulfur-containing amino acids as a virulence determinant

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 917-929

  Amich, Jorge ^a,b   Dümig, Michaela ^c   O'Keeffe, Gráinne ^d   Binder, Jasmin ^c   Doyle, Sean ^d   Beilhack, Andreas ^a   Krappmann, Sven ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN POLYSULFATE; METHIONINE; METHIONINE SYNTHASE; SULFATE; SULFITE REDUCTASE; SULFUR; TAURINE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; SULFITE REDUCTASE (NADPH);

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AUXOTROPHY; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG FIBROBLAST; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; METHIONINE; MICE; PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; SULFITE REDUCTASE (NADPH); SULFUR; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84962920388     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01124-15     Document Type: Article

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