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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Brown, Alistair JP
• Haynes, Ken
• Quinn, Janet

Titel

Nitrosative and oxidative stress responses in fungal pathogenicity

Ist Teil von

• Current opinion in microbiology, 2009-08, Vol.12 (4), p.384-391

Ort / Verlag

Kidlington: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Fungal pathogenicity has arisen in polyphyletic manner during evolution, yielding fungal pathogens with diverse infection strategies and with differing degrees of evolutionary adaptation to their human host. Not surprisingly, these fungal pathogens display differing degrees of resistance to the reactive oxygen and nitrogen species used by human cells to counteract infection. Furthermore, whilst evolutionarily conserved regulators, such as Hog1, are central to such stress responses in many fungal pathogens, species-specific differences in their roles and regulation abound. In contrast, there is a high degree of commonality in the cellular responses to reactive oxygen and nitrogen species evoked in evolutionarily divergent fungal pathogens.