pathogenic fungus
Protein profiling of the dimorphic, pathogenic fungus, Penicillium marneffei
... One unique aspect of our investigation is that it represents a significant step in linking both genomic and proteomic strategies in an effort to decipher the molecular mecha- nisms of phase transition in a ...
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RNA Interference in the Pathogenic Fungus Cryptococcus neoformans
... Cryptococcus neoformans is a pathogenic fungus responsible for serious disease in immunocompromised individuals. This organism has recently been developed as an experimental system, with initiation of a ge- ...
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Microhabitat temperatures and prevalence of the pathogenic fungus batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in lowland amazonian frogs
... the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) was not widely distributed in warm ecosystems such as lowland tropical rainforests because high environmental temperatures limit its ...
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Phylogeny and PCR identification of the human pathogenic fungus Penicillium marneffei
... human pathogenic fungus Penicillium marneffei was assessed from the nucleotide sequences of the nuclear and mitochondrial ribosomal DNA ...this pathogenic agent from clinical ...
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Candida nivariensis, an Emerging Pathogenic Fungus with Multidrug Resistance to Antifungal Agents
... In 2005, Candida nivariensis, a yeast species genetically related to Candida glabrata, was described following its isolation from three patients in a single Spanish hospital. Between 2005 and 2006, 16 fungal isolates ...
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Electrophoretic Karyotypes and Genome Sizing of the Pathogenic Fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
... of 4 to 8 nuclei per cell (Fig. 1) (26). However, it is not possible to claim that each nucleus is an independent genomic entity or that it might be considered part of the total genome of the organism. On the other hand, ...
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Mechanisms of Surface Antigenic Variation in the Human Pathogenic Fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii
... uncultivable fungus is an obligate pulmonary pathogen that in immunocompromised individuals causes pneumonia, a major life-threatening infec- ...the fungus consists of the continuous production of new ...
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Apoptosis modulates protective immunity to the pathogenic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum
... Pathogen-induced apoptosis of lymphocytes is associated with increased susceptibility to infection. In this study, we determined whether apoptosis influenced host resistance to the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum. ...
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Double-stranded RNA virus in the human pathogenic fungus Blastomyces dermatitidis.
... When the same radiolabeled in vitro transcripts were used as a probe for hybridization with the RNAs extracted from the original 13 isolates, the probe hybridized only with the 5-kb dsRN[r] ...
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Mismatch Repair of DNA Replication Errors Contributes to Microevolution in the Pathogenic Fungus Cryptococcus neoformans
... genic fungus can take advantage of a mutator phenotype in order to cause disease but that it can do so only in specific pathways that lead to a mutator trait without a significant tradeoff in ...
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Horizontal Chromosome Transfer, a Mechanism for the Evolution and Differentiation of a Plant-Pathogenic Fungus
... The tomato pathotype of Alternaria alternata produces host-specific AAL toxin and causes Alternaria stem canker on tomato. A polyketide synthetase (PKS) gene, ALT1, which is involved in AAL toxin biosynthesis, resides on ...
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Identification and characterization of the ergochrome gene cluster in the plant pathogenic fungus Claviceps purpurea
... of pathogenic fungi, leads to the formation of white but small and immature pseudosclerotia in ...of pathogenic development and second- ary metabolism in ...
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Microevolutionary traits and comparative population genomics of the emerging pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus gattii
... chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans was impli- cated in the near extirpation of fire salamanders in 2013 in the Netherlands ...basidiomycetous fungus Puccinia graminis ...basidiomycetous ...
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Genomic clustering and co-regulation of transcriptional networks in the pathogenic fungus Fusarium graminearum
... Gene function and phylogenetic conservation were found to be related constraints on gene positioning at the whole genome level in Fusarium. Rates of recombin- ation were associated with levels of protein sequence ...
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Effect of oleic acid on vegetative growth of the aphid-pathogenic fungus Erynia neoaphidis.
... Some growth was observed after the first subculture onto oleic acid free solid medium, and after the first and second subcultures into oleic acid free liquid me[r] ...
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Molecular Phylogeny and Proposal of Two New Species of the Emerging Pathogenic Fungus Saksenaea
... filamentous fungus reported in soil, drift- wood, and grains (1, 12, 34), characterized by flask-shaped sporangia, short sporangiophores, oval sporangiospores, and dark ...thermotolerant fungus that grows ...
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Multilocus Sequence Typing of the Pathogenic Fungus Aspergillus fumigatus
... The total number of polymorphic sites from all seven MLST fragments in our system was 41 (Table 3); therefore, 1.35% of the 3,038 nucleotides from seven MLST fragments have poly- morphisms. This “SNP return” is much ...
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Stress adaptation in a pathogenic fungus
... The loss of a bona fide sexual cycle has had a major impact on the experimental dissection of C. albicans pathobiology. Researchers have had to rely mainly on genomic and molecular approaches, rather than genetic ...
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Sex-Dependent Resistance to the Pathogenic Fungus Cryptococcus neoformans
... elegans males from all strains tested always showed enhanced resistance to Cryptococcus- mediated killing (Figure 4B).. Similarly, males of the closely related gonochoristic (male/female[r] ...
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Pathogen specific antibodies: codependent no longer
... human pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans elicit diverse effects on fungal gene expression, lipid biosynthesis, susceptibility to amphotericin B, cellular metabolism, and protein ...
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