Diversity, application, and synthetic biology of industrially important Aspergillus fungi

HS Park, SC Jun, KH Han, SB Hong, JH Yu - Advances in applied …, 2017 - Elsevier
The filamentous fungal genus Aspergillus consists of over 340 officially recognized species.
A handful of these Aspergillus fungi are predominantly used for food fermentation and large …

Aspergillus terreus species complex

C Lass-Flörl, AM Dietl, DP Kontoyiannis… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2021 - journals.asm.org
Infections due to Aspergillus species are an acute threat to human health; members of the
Aspergillus section Fumigati are the most frequently occurring agents, but depending on the …

A CRISPR-Cas9 system for genetic engineering of filamentous fungi

CS Nødvig, JB Nielsen, ME Kogle, UH Mortensen - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The number of fully sequenced fungal genomes is rapidly increasing. Since genetic tools
are poorly developed for most filamentous fungi, it is currently difficult to employ genetic …

MycoCosm portal: gearing up for 1000 fungal genomes

IV Grigoriev, R Nikitin, S Haridas, A Kuo… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
MycoCosm is a fungal genomics portal (http://jgi. doe. gov/fungi), developed by the US
Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute to support integration, analysis and …

Activities at the universal protein resource (UniProt)

UniProt Consortium - Nucleic acids research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The mission of the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt)(http://www. uniprot. org) is to
provide the scientific community with a comprehensive, high-quality and freely accessible …

EffectorP: predicting fungal effector proteins from secretomes using machine learning

J Sperschneider, DM Gardiner, PN Dodds… - New …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Eukaryotic filamentous plant pathogens secrete effector proteins that modulate the host cell
to facilitate infection. Computational effector candidate identification and subsequent …

A comparative genomics study of 23 Aspergillus species from section Flavi

I Kjærbølling, T Vesth, JC Frisvad, JL Nybo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Section Flavi encompasses both harmful and beneficial Aspergillus species, such as
Aspergillus oryzae, used in food fermentation and enzyme production, and Aspergillus …

Extracellular electron transfer systems fuel cellulose oxidative degradation

D Kracher, S Scheiblbrandner, AKG Felice… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Ninety percent of lignocellulose-degrading fungi contain genes encoding lytic
polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs). These enzymes catalyze the initial oxidative …

Comparative genomics reveals high biological diversity and specific adaptations in the industrially and medically important fungal genus Aspergillus

RP De Vries, R Riley, A Wiebenga, G Aguilar-Osorio… - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background The fungal genus Aspergillus is of critical importance to humankind.
Species include those with industrial applications, important pathogens of humans, animals …

ApoplastP: prediction of effectors and plant proteins in the apoplast using machine learning

J Sperschneider, PN Dodds, KB Singh… - New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The plant apoplast is integral to intercellular signalling, transport and plant–pathogen
interactions. Plant pathogens deliver effectors both into the apoplast and inside host cells …