Six Hydrophobins Are Involved in Hydrophobin Rodlet Formation in Aspergillus nidulans and Contribute to Hydrophobicity of the Spore Surface

• André Grünbacher ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: André Grünbacher, Tanja Throm

  Affiliation Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Campus South, Institute for Applied Biosciences (IAB), Department of Microbiology, Karlsruhe, Germany

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• Tanja Throm ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: André Grünbacher, Tanja Throm

  Affiliation Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Campus South, Institute for Applied Biosciences (IAB), Department of Microbiology, Karlsruhe, Germany

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• Constanze Seidel,

  Affiliation Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Campus South, Institute for Applied Biosciences (IAB), Department of Microbiology, Karlsruhe, Germany

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• Beatrice Gutt,

  Affiliation Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Campus South, Institute for Applied Biosciences (IAB), Department of Microbiology, Karlsruhe, Germany

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• Julian Röhrig,

  Affiliation Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Campus South, Institute for Applied Biosciences (IAB), Department of Microbiology, Karlsruhe, Germany

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• Timo Strunk,

  Affiliation KIT - Campus North, Institute of Nanotechnolgy (INT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

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• Paul Vincze,

  Affiliation KIT - Campus North, Institute of Applied Physics and INT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

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• Stefan Walheim,

  Affiliation KIT - Campus North, Institute of Applied Physics and INT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

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• Thomas Schimmel,

  Affiliation KIT - Campus North, Institute of Applied Physics and INT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

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• Wolfgang Wenzel,

  Affiliation KIT - Campus North, Institute of Nanotechnolgy (INT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

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• Reinhard Fischer

  * E-mail: Reinhard.fischer@kit.edu

  Affiliation Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Campus South, Institute for Applied Biosciences (IAB), Department of Microbiology, Karlsruhe, Germany

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