Phosphoglucose Isomerase Is Important for <i>Aspergillus fumigatus</i> Cell Wall Biogenesis-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Phosphoglucose Isomerase Is Important for Aspergillus fumigatus Cell Wall Biogenesis

Published:2022-08-30 Issue:4 Volume:13 Page:
ISSN:2150-7511
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Author:

Zhou Yao¹²,Yan Kaizhou³,Qin Qijian¹,Raimi Olawale G.³,Du Chao¹²,Wang Bin¹,Ahamefule Chukwuemeka Samson¹,Kowalski Bartosz³,Jin Cheng¹⁴^ORCID,van Aalten Daan M. F.³,Fang Wenxia¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Guangxi Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Center, Guangxi Academy of Sciences, Nanning, Guangxi, China

2. College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, China

3. School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom

4. State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Abstract

Aspergillus fumigatus is an opportunistic fungal pathogen causing deadly infections in immunocompromised patients. Enzymes essential for fungal survival and cell wall biosynthesis are considered potential drug targets against A. fumigatus .

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Province

MRC programme grant

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Virology,Microbiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/mbio.01426-22

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