Sensitivity of Aspergillus nidulans to the Cellulose Synthase Inhibitor Dichlobenil: Insights from Wall-Related Genes’ Expression and Ultrastructural Hyphal Morphologies

Gea Guerriero; Lucia Silvestrini; Michael Obersriebnig; Marco Salerno; Dietmar Pum; Joseph Strauss

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0080038

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Sensitivity of Aspergillus nidulans to the Cellulose Synthase Inhibitor Dichlobenil: Insights from Wall-Related Genes’ Expression and Ultrastructural Hyphal Morphologies

Gea Guerriero ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Gea Guerriero, Lucia Silvestrini

* E-mail: guerrier@lippmann.lu (GG); joseph.strauss@boku.ac.at (JS)

Current address: Department Environment and Agro-biotechnologies (EVA), Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann, Belvaux, Luxembourg

Affiliation Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, Fungal Genetics and Genomics Unit, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), University and Research Center Campus Tulln-Technopol, Tulln/Donau, Austria
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Lucia Silvestrini ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Gea Guerriero, Lucia Silvestrini

Affiliation Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, Fungal Genetics and Genomics Unit, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), University and Research Center Campus Tulln-Technopol, Tulln/Donau, Austria
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Michael Obersriebnig,

Affiliation Institute of Wood Science and Technology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), University and Research Center Campus Tulln-Technopol, Tulln/Donau, Austria
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Marco Salerno,

Affiliation Nanophysics Department, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
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Dietmar Pum,

Affiliation Department of Nanobiotechnology, Institute for Biophysics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
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Joseph Strauss

* E-mail: guerrier@lippmann.lu (GG); joseph.strauss@boku.ac.at (JS)

Affiliations Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, Fungal Genetics and Genomics Unit, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), University and Research Center Campus Tulln-Technopol, Tulln/Donau, Austria, Health and Environment Department, Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH - AIT, University and Research Center Campus Tulln-Technopol, Tulln/Donau, Austria
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Sensitivity of Aspergillus nidulans to the Cellulose Synthase Inhibitor Dichlobenil: Insights from Wall-Related Genes’ Expression and Ultrastructural Hyphal Morphologies

Gea Guerriero,
Lucia Silvestrini,
Michael Obersriebnig,
Marco Salerno,
Dietmar Pum,
Joseph Strauss

Published: November 29, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080038

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