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SUBMITTER: Valsecchi I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5872305 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Valsecchi Isabel I Dupres Vincent V Stephen-Victor Emmanuel E Guijarro J Iñaki JI Gibbons John J Beau Rémi R Bayry Jagadeesh J Coppee Jean-Yves JY Lafont Frank F Latgé Jean-Paul JP Beauvais Anne A
Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) 20171224 1
Resistance of <i>Aspergillus fumigatus</i> conidia to desiccation and their capacity to reach the alveoli are partly due to the presence of a hydrophobic layer composed of a protein from the hydrophobin family, called RodA, which covers the conidial surface. In <i>A. fumigatus</i> there are seven hydrophobins (RodA-RodG) belonging to class I and III. Most of them have never been studied. We constructed single and multiple hydrophobin-deletion mutants until the generation of a hydrophobin-free mu ...[more]