Article
Fungi use the SakA (HogA) pathway for phytochrome-dependent light signalling.
Nature microbiology - 29 Feb 2016
Yu Zhenzhong, Armant Olivier, Fischer Reinhard
Abstract excerpt
Stress-sensing in fungi depends on a signalling cascade comprised of a two-component phosphorylation relay plus a subsequent MAP kinase cascade to trigger gene expression. Besides osmotic or oxidative stress, fungi sense many other environmental factors, one of which is light(1,2). Light controls morphogenetic pathways but also the production of secondary metabolites such as penicillin. Here we show that...
Topics
- Aspergillus nidulans
- Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal
- Genetic Testing
- Genome, Fungal
- Light
- Mutation
- Phytochrome
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Signal Transduction