ChIP-seq and in vivo transcriptome analyses of the Aspergillus fumigatus SREBP SrbA reveals a new regulator of the fungal hypoxia response and virulence.

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Published in PLoS Pathog on November 06, 2014

Authors

Dawoon Chung1, Bridget M Barker1, Charles C Carey2, Brittney Merriman3, Ernst R Werner4, Beatrix E Lechner5, Sourabh Dhingra1, Chao Cheng6, Wenjie Xu7, Sara J Blosser3, Kengo Morohashi8, Aurélien Mazurie2, Thomas K Mitchell9, Hubertus Haas5, Aaron P Mitchell7, Robert A Cramer1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America.
2: Bioinformatics Core, Department of Microbiology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America.
3: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America.
4: Division of Biological Chemistry, Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria.
5: Division of Molecular Biology, Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria.
6: Department of Genetics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America.
7: Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
8: Center for Applied Plant Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America.
9: Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America.

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