GAP aflR- vs WT timecourse
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ORGANISM(S): Aspergillus parasiticus
SUBMITTER: Jiujiang Yu
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-2709 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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The aflatoxin pathway regulator AflR induces gene transcription inside and outside of the aflatoxin biosynthetic cluster.
Price Michael S MS Yu Jiujiang J Nierman William C WC Kim H Stanley HS Pritchard Bethan B Jacobus Carrie A CA Bhatnagar Deepak D Cleveland Thomas E TE Payne Gary A GA
FEMS microbiology letters 20060201 2
Aflatoxin contamination of food and feed is a major concern due to the carcinogenic properties of this mycotoxin. Previous studies using classical approaches have identified a cluster of genes responsible for aflatoxin production under the control of the pathway-specific transcriptional regulator aflR, but it is unknown whether aflR controls expression of other genes within the genome. Transcription profiling comparing wild type and DeltaaflR strains of Aspergillus parasiticus grown under condit ...[more]
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