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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2022

Spt20, a Structural Subunit of the SAGA Complex, Regulates Aspergillus fumigatus Biofilm Formation, Asexual Development, and Virulence.

Yuan Chen, James I P Stewart, Shuai Liu, Donald C Sheppard, Ling Lu, Shizhu Zhang

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 46% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yuan ChenJiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics, Jiangsu Engineering and Technology Research Center for Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal Universitygrid.260474.3, Nanjing, China.
James I P StewartDepartment of Experimental Medicine, Research Institute of the McGill Universitygrid.14709.3b Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Shuai LiuJiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics, Jiangsu Engineering and Technology Research Center for Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal Universitygrid.260474.3, Nanjing, China.
Donald C SheppardDepartment of Experimental Medicine, Research Institute of the McGill Universitygrid.14709.3b Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Ling LuJiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics, Jiangsu Engineering and Technology Research Center for Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal Universitygrid.260474.3, Nanjing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2891-7326
Shizhu ZhangJiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics, Jiangsu Engineering and Technology Research Center for Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal Universitygrid.260474.3, Nanjing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0283-3714
Institute of Infection and Immunity · CAMcGill University Health Centre · CA

Funding

CIHR 123306CIHR FDN-159902FRQ | Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQS)Gouvernement du Canada | Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) 81361National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSF) 31470193National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSF) 31770086Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The exopolysaccharide galactosaminogalactan (GAG) plays an important role in mediating adhesion, biofilm formation, and virulence in the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. Previous work showed that in A. fumigatus, the Lim domain-binding protein PtaB can form a complex with the sequence-specific transcription factor SomA for regulating GAG biosynthesis, biofilm formation, and asexual development. However, transcriptional coactivators required for biofilm formation in A. fumigatus remain uncharacterized. In this study, Spt20, an orthologue of the subunit of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae transcriptional coactivator Spt-Ada-Gcn5-acetyltransferase (SAGA) complex, was identified as a regulator of biofilm formation and asexual development in A. fumigatus. The loss of

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Aspergillus fumigatusBiofilmsFungal ProteinsVirulenceFungal Proteinsasexual developmentAspergillus fumigatusbiofilm formationSAGA complexvirulence

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PMID34669434
PMCPMC8752154
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