Search Results - "Mattern, Derek J."
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Regulation and Role of Fungal Secondary Metabolites
Published in Annual review of genetics (23-11-2016)“…Fungi have the capability to produce a tremendous number of so-called secondary metabolites, which possess a multitude of functions, e.g., communication…”
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Microbial communication leading to the activation of silent fungal secondary metabolite gene clusters
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (20-04-2015)“…Microorganisms form diverse multispecies communities in various ecosystems. The high abundance of fungal and bacterial species in these consortia results in…”
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Bacillus subtilis attachment to Aspergillus niger hyphae results in mutually altered metabolism
Published in Environmental microbiology (01-06-2015)“…Summary Interaction between microbes affects the growth, metabolism and differentiation of members of the microbial community. While direct and indirect…”
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Virulence determinants of the human pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus protect against soil amoeba predation
Published in Environmental microbiology (01-08-2015)“…Summary Filamentous fungi represent classical examples for environmentally acquired human pathogens whose major virulence mechanisms are likely to have emerged…”
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Synergistic activity of cosecreted natural products from amoebae-associated bacteria
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (10-04-2018)“…Investigating microbial interactions from an ecological perspective is a particularly fruitful approach to unveil both new chemistry and bioactivity. Microbial…”
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Identification of the antiphagocytic trypacidin gene cluster in the human-pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus
Published in Applied microbiology and biotechnology (01-12-2015)“…The opportunistic human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus produces numerous different natural products. The genetic basis for the biosynthesis of a number of…”
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SCF Ubiquitin Ligase F-box Protein Fbx15 Controls Nuclear Co-repressor Localization, Stress Response and Virulence of the Human Pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-09-2016)“…F-box proteins share the F-box domain to connect substrates of E3 SCF ubiquitin RING ligases through the adaptor Skp1/A to Cul1/A scaffolds. F-box protein…”
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Functional Reconstitution of a Fungal Natural Product Gene Cluster by Advanced Genome Editing
Published in ACS synthetic biology (20-01-2017)“…Filamentous fungi produce varieties of natural products even in a strain dependent manner. However, the genetic basis of chemical speciation between strains is…”
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Rewiring of the Austinoid Biosynthetic Pathway in Filamentous Fungi
Published in ACS chemical biology (15-12-2017)“…Filamentous fungi produce numerous high-value natural products (NPs). The biosynthetic genes for NPs are normally clustered in the genome. A valuable NP class…”
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Discovery of an Extended Austinoid Biosynthetic Pathway in Aspergillus calidoustus
Published in ACS chemical biology (19-05-2017)“…Filamentous fungi produce a wide range of natural products that are commonly used in various industrial contexts (e.g., pharmaceuticals and insecticides)…”
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Synthetic biology of fungal natural products
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (30-07-2015)“…Synthetic biology is an ever-expanding field in science, also encompassing the research area of fungal natural product (NP) discovery and production. Until…”
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Facile assembly and fluorescence-based screening method for heterologous expression of biosynthetic pathways in fungi
Published in Metabolic engineering (01-07-2018)“…Heterologous expression of multi-gene biosynthetic pathways in eukaryotic hosts is limited by highly regulated individual monocistrons. Dissimilar to…”
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Lichen-like association of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Aspergillus nidulans protects algal cells from bacteria
Published in The ISME Journal (01-11-2020)“…Organismal interactions within microbial consortia and their responses to harmful intruders remain largely understudied. An important step toward the goal of…”
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Aspergillus fumigatus protein phosphatase PpzA is involved in iron assimilation, secondary metabolite production, and virulence
Published in Cellular microbiology (01-12-2017)“…Summary Metal restriction imposed by mammalian hosts during an infection is a common mechanism of defence to reduce or avoid the pathogen infection. Metals are…”
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The hypoxia‐induced dehydrogenase HorA is required for coenzyme Q10 biosynthesis, azole sensitivity and virulence of Aspergillus fumigatus
Published in Molecular microbiology (01-07-2016)“…Summary Aspergillus fumigatus is the predominant airborne pathogenic fungus causing invasive aspergillosis in immunocompromised patients. During infection…”
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Biosynthesis of the Sphingolipid Inhibitors Sphingofungins in Filamentous Fungi Requires Aminomalonate as a Metabolic Precursor
Published in ACS chemical biology (18-02-2022)“…Sphingofungins belong to a group of structurally related sphingolipid inhibitors produced by fungi, which specifically inhibit serine palmitoyl transferases,…”
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Synthetic biology tools for bioprospecting of natural products in eukaryotes
Published in Chemistry & biology (24-04-2014)“…Filamentous fungi have the capacity to produce a battery of natural products of often unknown function, synthesized by complex metabolic pathways…”
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Draft Genome Sequence of the Fungus Penicillium brasilianum MG11
Published in Genome announcements (Washington, DC) (03-09-2015)“…The genus Penicillium belongs to the phylum Ascomycota and includes a variety of fungal species important for food and drug production. We report the draft…”
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Draft Genome Sequences of Fungus Aspergillus calidoustus
Published in Genome announcements (Washington, DC) (10-03-2016)“…Here, we report the draft genome sequence of Aspergillus calidoustus (strain SF006504). The functional annotation of A. calidoustus predicts a relatively large…”
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Virulence determinants of the human pathogenic fungus A spergillus fumigatus protect against soil amoeba predation
Published in Environmental microbiology (01-08-2015)“…Summary Filamentous fungi represent classical examples for environmentally acquired human pathogens whose major virulence mechanisms are likely to have emerged…”
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