Studies on Interaction of Human Lung Epithelial Cells with Conidia of Aspergillus terreus

Abstract

Fungi is a well-known organism that was once classified under plants, but after knowing the biological role of fungi and different species identified, it has now being classified as kingdom fungi (Bruns 2006). Still fungi having a complex genome, capable of undergoing post transcriptional modification and having a core system of performing protein-protein interactions, it has also considered as a Eukaryotic organism. The fungi with unicellular system are called as yeast and molds whereas the multicellular fungi are capable of producing fruiting forms such as mushrooms. A fungus is differentiated from other micro-organisms on the basis of their cell wall structure. Unlike the cell wall of plants, bacteria and some protists the fungal cell wall contains chitin. But they are very much similar to animals and are generally considered as heterotrophs as they acquire their food by absorbing certain dissolved biomolecules in the environment and by secreting certain digestive enzymes they make their food accessible to them (Shoji, Arioka et al. 2006). Fungi is mobile, except for their spores that any means or source of transportation either