Dr. Alex Andrianopoulos

Recent Publications 1996-2007

Canovas, D. and Andrianopoulos, A. (2007). Penicillium marneffei, a unique thermally dimorphic fungal pathogen. In New Insights in Medical Mycology, K. Kavanagh (Ed). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Chung, H., Bogwitz, M. R., McCart, C., Andrianopoulos, A., Ffrench-Constant, R. H., Batterham, P. and Daborn, P. J. (2007). Cis-regulatory elements in the Accord retrotransposon result in tissue-specific expression of the Drosophila melanogaster insecticide resistance gene Cyp6g1. Genetics. 175:1071-1077.

Andrianopoulos, A. (2007). Regulating the transition between the two major fungal cell types; yeast cells and filamentous hyphal cells. Microbiol. Aust. 28:79-81.

Boyce, K. J. and Andrianopoulos, A. (2007). A p21-Activated Kinase is required for conidial germination in Penicillium marneffei. PLoS Pathogens. 3(11):e162

Cánovas, D. and Andrianopoulos, A. (2006) Developmental regulation of the glyoxylate cycle in the human pathogen Penicillium marneffei. Mol. Microbiol. 62: 1725-1738

Andrianopoulos, A. and Zuber, S. (2006). Signaling pathways in the dimorphic human pathogen Penicillium marneffei. In Molecular Principles of Fungal Pathogenesis, Ch 30, p 441-454 J. Heitman, S. Filler, and A. Mitchell (eds). ASM Press Washington, D.C.

Todd, R.B., Hynes, M.J., Andrianopoulos, A. (2006) The Aspergillus nidulans rcoA gene is required for veA-dependent sexual development. Genetics. 174:1685-1688.

Boyce, K. J. and Andrianopoulos, A. (2006). Morphogenesis: Control of Cell Types and Shape. In The Mycota I - Growth, Differentiation and Sexuality, Chapter 1, p 3-20, E. Kües and R. Fischer (Eds.) Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Pongsunk, S., Andrianopoulos, A. and Chaiyaroj, S. C. (2005) Conditional lethal disruption of TATA-binding protein gene in Penicillium marneffei. Fungal Genet Biol. 42: 893-903.

Boyce, K. J, Hynes, M. J. and Andrianopoulos, A. (2005). The Ras and Rho GTPases genetically interact to co-ordinately regulate cell polarity during development in Penicillium marneffei. Molec. Microbiol. 55: 1487-1501. (Journal cover picture).

Zuber, S., Hynes, M. J. and Andrianopoulos, A. (2003). The G-protein a subunit GasC plays a major role in germination in the dimorphic fungus Penicillium marneffei. Genetics, 164: 487-499.

Boyce, K. J, Hynes, M. J. and Andrianopoulos, A. (2003). Control of morphogenesis and actin localization by the Penicillium marneffei RAC homolog. J. Cell Sci., 116: 1249-1260.

Todd, R. B., Greenhalgh, J. R., Hynes, M. J. and Andrianopoulos, A. (2003). The Penicillium marneffei TUP1 homolog represses both pathogenic yeast and infectious spore development. Mol. Microbiol., 48: 85-94.

Andrianopoulos, A. (2002). Control of morphogenesis in the human fungal pathogen Penicillium marneffei. Int. J. Med. Microbiol. 292: 331-347.

Zuber, S., Hynes, M. J. and Andrianopoulos, A. (2002). G-protein signalling mediates asexual development at 25¡C, but has no effect on yeast-like growth at 37¡C in the dimorphic fungus Penicillium marneffei. Eukaryotic Cell, Cell, 1: 440-447.

Borneman, A. R., Hynes, M. J. and Andrianopoulos, A. (2002). A basic helix-loop-helix protein with similarity to the fungal morphological regulators Phd1p, Efg1p and StuA, controls conidiation but not dimorphic growth in Penicillium marneffei. Molec. Microbiol., 44: 621-632.

Szewczyk, E., Andrianopoulos, A., Davis, M. A. and Hynes, M. J. (2001). A single gene produces mitochondrial, cytoplasmic and peroxisomal NADP-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase in Aspergillus nidulans. J. Biol. Chem. 276: 37722-37729. (Cover picture)

Boyce, K. J, Hynes, M. J. and Andrianopoulos, A. (2001). The CDC42 homolog of the dimorphic fungus Penicillium marneffei is required for correct cell polarization during growth but not development. J. Bacteriol. 183: 3447-3457.

Borneman, A. R., Hynes, M. J. and Andrianopoulos, A. (2001). An STE12 homolog from the asexual, dimorphic fungus Penicillium marneffei complements the defect in sexual development of an Aspergillus nidulans steA mutant. Genetics, 157: 1003-1014.

Borneman, A. R., Hynes, M. J. and Andrianopoulos, A. (2000). The abaA homologue of Penicillium marneffei participates in two developmental programmes: conidiation and dimorphic growth. Molec. Microbiol. 38:1034-1047. (Cover picture)

Brakhage, A. A., Andrianopoulos, A., Kato, M., Steidl, S., Davis, M. A. and Hynes, M. J. (1999). HAP-like CCAAT-binding complexes in filamentous fungi: Implications for biotechnology. Fungal Genet Biol. 27: 243-252

Steidl, S., Papagiannopoulos, P., Litzka, O., Andrianopoulos, A., Davis, M. A., Brakhage, A. A. and Hynes, M. J. (1999) AnCF, the CCAAT binding component of Aspergillus nidulans contains products of the hapB, hapC and hapE genes and is required for activation by the pathway specific regulatory gene, amdR. Mol. Cell Biol. 19: 99-106.

Todd, R. B., Andrianopoulos, A., Davis, M. A. and Hynes, M. J. (1998) . FacB, the Aspergillus nidulans activator of acetate utilisation genes binds dissimilar DNA sequences. EMBO J. 17 :2042-2054.

Todd, R. B. and Andrianopoulos, A. (1997). Evolution of a fungal regulatory gene family: The Zn(II)2Cys6 binuclear cluster DNA binding motif. Fungal Genet Biol. 21: 388-405

Andrianopoulos, A., Kourambas, S., Sharp, J. A., Davis, M. A. and Hynes, M. J. (1998). Characterisation of the Aspergillus nidulans nmrA gene involved in nitrogen metabolite repression. J. Bacteriol. 180:1973-1977.

Andrianopoulos, A., Brons, J., Davis, M. A. and Hynes, M. J. (1997). The amdA regulatory gene of Aspergillus nidulans: Characterisation of gain-of-function mutations and identification of binding sites for the gene product. Fungal Genet. Biol. 21: 50-63.

Murphy, R. L., Andrianopoulos, A., Davis, M. A. and Hynes, M. J. (1997). Identification of amdX: A new Cys2His2 (C2H2) zinc finger gene involved in the regulation of the amdS gene of Aspergillus nidulans. Molec. Microbiol. 23 : 591-602.

Papagiannopoulos, P., Andrianopoulos, A., Sharp, J. A., Davis, M. A. and Hynes, M. J. (1996). The hapC gene of Aspergillus nidulans is involved in the expression of CCAAT-containing promoters. Mol. Gen. Genet. 251: 412-421

Gavrias, V., Andrianopoulos, A., Gimeno, C. J. and Timberlake, W. E. (1996). Saccharomyces cerevisiae TEC1 is required for pseudohyphal growth. Mol. Microbiol. 19: 1255-1263.