Regulators of the Asexual Life Cycle of Aspergillus nidulans

YE Son, JH Yu, HS Park - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
The genus Aspergillus, one of the most abundant airborne fungi, is classified into hundreds
of species that affect humans, animals, and plants. Among these, Aspergillus nidulans, as a …

Developmental regulators in Aspergillus fumigatus

HS Park, JH Yu - Journal of Microbiology, 2016 - Springer
The filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus is the most prevalent airborne fungal
pathogen causing severe and usually fatal invasive aspergillosis in immunocompromised …

The Aspergillus flavus Histone Acetyltransferase AflGcnE Regulates Morphogenesis, Aflatoxin Biosynthesis, and Pathogenicity

H Lan, R Sun, K Fan, K Yang, F Zhang, XY Nie… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Histone acetyltransferases (HATs) help regulate fungal development and the production of
secondary metabolites. In this study, we determined that the HAT AflGcnE influenced …

Negative regulation and developmental competence in Aspergillus

MK Lee, NJ Kwon, IS Lee, S Jung, SC Kim, JH Yu - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Asexual development (conidiation) in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans is
governed by orchestrated gene expression. The three key negative regulators of conidiation …

PdGpaA controls the growth and virulence of Penicillium digitatum by regulating cell wall reorganization, energy metabolism, and CDWEs production

Y Du, J Zhu, W Zhang, X Chen, F Yang, Z Tian… - Postharvest Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Penicillium digitatum could infect citrus and cause devastating green mold disease. One of
the essential parts of the G protein is the Gα subunit, which is essential to signal transduction …

It's all in the genes: the regulatory pathways of sexual reproduction in filamentous ascomycetes

AM Wilson, PM Wilken, MA van der Nest, MJ Wingfield… - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Sexual reproduction in filamentous ascomycete fungi results in the production of highly
specialized sexual tissues, which arise from relatively simple, vegetative mycelia. This …

[HTML][HTML] The Gβ-like protein Bcgbl1 regulates development and pathogenicity of the gray mold Botrytis cinerea via modulating two MAP kinase signaling pathways

J Tang, Z Sui, R Li, Y Xu, L Xiang, S Fu, J Wei… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The fungal Gβ-like protein has been reported to be involved in a variety of biological
processes, such as mycelial growth, differentiation, conidiation, stress responses and …

The LAMMER Kinase, LkhA, Affects Aspergillus fumigatus Pathogenicity by Modulating Reproduction and Biosynthesis of Cell Wall PAMPs

JY Lim, YJ Kim, SA Woo, JW Jeong, YR Lee… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The LAMMER kinase in eukaryotes is a well-conserved dual-specificity kinase. Aspergillus
species cause a wide spectrum of diseases called aspergillosis in humans, depending on …

Functional analysis of the bZIP-type transcription factors AtfA and AtfB in Aspergillus nidulans

B Kocsis, MK Lee, JH Yu, T Nagy, L Daróczi… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Transcription factors (TFs) with the basic leucin zipper domain are key elements of the stress
response pathways in filamentous fungi. In this study, we functionally characterized the two …

Genetic control of asexual development in Aspergillus fumigatus

F Alkhayyat, SC Kim, JH Yu - Advances in applied microbiology, 2015 - Elsevier
Aspergillus fumigatus is one of the most common fungi found in the environment. It is an
opportunistic human pathogen causing invasive pulmonary aspergillosis with a high …