Menacing Mold: The Molecular Biology of Aspergillus fumigatus

AA Brakhage, K Langfelder - Annual Reviews in Microbiology, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Infections with mold pathogens have emerged as an increasing risk faced by
patients under sustained immunosuppression. Species of the Aspergillus family account for …

Advances in cloning, functional analysis and heterologous expression of fungal polyketide synthase genes

J Schümann, C Hertweck - Journal of biotechnology, 2006 - Elsevier
Fungal polyketides comprise a diverse group of secondary metabolites that play an
important role for drug discovery, as pigments, and as mycotoxins. Their biosynthesis is …

Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation of Fusarium oxysporum: An Efficient Tool for Insertional Mutagenesis and Gene Transfer

ED Mullins, X Chen, P Romaine, R Raina… - …, 2001 - Am Phytopath Society
Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation (ATMT) has long been used to transfer
genes to a wide variety of plants and has also served as an efficient tool for insertional …

Reactive oxygen species play a role in regulating a fungus–perennial ryegrass mutualistic interaction

A Tanaka, MJ Christensen, D Takemoto, P Park… - The Plant …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Although much is known about the signals and mechanisms that lead to pathogenic
interactions between plants and fungi, comparatively little is known about fungus–plant …

Aspergillus nidulans transcription factor AtfA interacts with the MAPK SakA to regulate general stress responses, development and spore functions

F Lara‐Rojas, O Sánchez, L Kawasaki… - Molecular …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Fungi utilize a phosphorelay system coupled to a MAP kinase module for sensing and
processing environmental signals. In Aspergillus nidulans, response regulator SskA …

The COP9 signalosome is an essential regulator of development in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans

S Busch, SE Eckert, S Krappmann… - Molecular …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The COP9 signalosome (CSN) is a conserved multiprotein complex involved in regulation of
eukaryotic development. The deduced amino acid sequences of two Aspergillus nidulans …

Transformation: a tool for studying fungal pathogens of plants

ED Mullins, S Kang - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences CMLS, 2001 - Springer
Plant diseases caused by plant pathogenic fungi continuously threaten the sustainability of
global crop production. An effective way to study the disease-causing mechanisms of these …

Medical and biomedical applications of shock waves

AM Loske - 2017 - Springer
This book was written with the aim of widening the reader's spectrum of knowledge
regarding the uses of shock waves in medicine and biology, as well as to contribute to safer …

Response regulators SrrA and SskA are central components of a phosphorelay system involved in stress signal transduction and asexual sporulation in Aspergillus …

I Vargas-Pérez, O Sánchez, L Kawasaki… - Eukaryotic …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
Among eukaryotes, only slime molds, fungi, and plants contain signal transduction
phosphorelay systems. In filamentous fungi, multiple sensor kinases appear to use a single …

Physical methods for genetic transformation of fungi and yeast

AL Rivera, D Magana-Ortiz, M Gomez-Lim… - Physics of life …, 2014 - Elsevier
The production of transgenic fungi is a routine process. Currently, it is possible to insert
genes from other fungi, viruses, bacteria and even animals, albeit with low efficiency, into the …