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Dynamic study of the cell wall integrity signaling pathway in Aspergillus nidulans

ABSTRACT: A phosphoproteomic evaluation of the cellular response to micafungin (cell wall perturbant) in the filamentous fungi, A. nidulans, reveals putative, currently unknown cell wall integrity signaling (CWIS) associated proteins. This study used thirteen timepoints were taken from 0 to 10 minutes after cell wall exposure with two biological and two technical replicates. All data was processed using label free quantification with MaxQuant software.

INSTRUMENT(S): Orbitrap Fusion

ORGANISM(S): Emericella Nidulans (aspergillus Nidulans)

SUBMITTER: Cynthia Chelius

LAB HEAD: Mark R. Marten

PROVIDER: PXD015038 | Pride | 2020-07-16

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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Dynamic Transcriptomic and Phosphoproteomic Analysis During Cell Wall Stress in <i>Aspergillus nidulans</i>.

Chelius Cynthia C Huso Walker W Reese Samantha S Doan Alexander A Lincoln Stephen S Lawson Kelsi K Tran Bao B Purohit Raj R Glaros Trevor T Srivastava Ranjan R Harris Steven D SD Marten Mark R MR

Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP 20200519 8

The fungal cell-wall integrity signaling (CWIS) pathway regulates cellular response to environmental stress to enable wall repair and resumption of normal growth. This complex, interconnected, pathway has been only partially characterized in filamentous fungi. To better understand the dynamic cellular response to wall perturbation, a β-glucan synthase inhibitor (micafungin) was added to a growing <i>A. nidulans</i> shake-flask culture. From this flask, transcriptomic and phosphoproteomic data we ...[more]

PMID: 32430394

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Dynamic study of the cell wall integrity signaling pathway in Aspergillus nidulans

Publications

Dynamic Transcriptomic and Phosphoproteomic Analysis During Cell Wall Stress in <i>Aspergillus nidulans</i>.

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