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ArticleFungal genetics and biology : FG & B2008

Molecular cloning and characterization of WdTUP1, a gene that encodes a potential transcriptional repressor important for yeast-hyphal transitions in Wangiella (Exophiala) dermatitidis.

Hongbo Liu, Dariusz Abramczyk, Chester R Cooper, Li Zheng, Changwon Park, Paul J Szaniszlo

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Article in Fungal genetics and biology : FG & B, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hongbo LiuSection of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, School of Biological Science and Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station A5000, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Dariusz Abramczyk
Chester R Cooper
Li Zheng
Changwon Park
Paul J Szaniszlo
The University of Texas at Austin · US

Funding

WANGIELLA MODEL FOR DEMATIACEOUS FUNGAL PATHOGENSR01AI033049 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN · PI SZANISZLO, PAUL J · 1993 to 2007
$1.8M
NIAID NIH HHS AI 33049NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI033049
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The general transcriptional repressor Tup1p is known to influence cell development in many fungi. To determine whether the Tup1p ortholog (WdTup1p) of Wangiella dermatitidis also influences cellular development in this melanized, polymorphic human pathogen, the gene (WdTUP1) that encodes this transcription factor was isolated, sequenced and disrupted. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the WdTup1p sequence was closely related to homologues in other polymorphic, conidiogenous fungi. Disruption of WdTUP1 produced mutants (wdtup1Delta) with pronounced growth and cellular abnormalities, including slow growth on various agar media and exclusively as a filamentous morphotype in liquid media. We concluded that WdTup1p represents an important switch regulator that controls the yeast-to-filamentous growth transition. However, detailed observations of the filamentous growth of the disruption mutant showed that the hyphae produced by the wdtup1Delta mutants, unlike those of the wild-type, were arrested at a stage prior to the formation of true hyphae and subsequent conidia production.

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Blotting, NorthernCloning, MolecularDNA, FungalExophialaFungal ProteinsGene DeletionHyphaeMolecular Sequence DataMutagenesis, InsertionalPhylogenyRepressor ProteinsRNA, FungalSequence Analysis, DNASequence Homology, Amino AcidDNA, FungalFungal ProteinsRepressor ProteinsRNA, Fungal

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PMID18061494
PMCPMC2386434
OpenAlexW1976339458

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