Functional analysis of the promoter of the phase-specific WH11 gene of Candida albicans

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 1797-1805

  Srikantha, Thyagarajan ^a   Chandrasekhar, Anand ^a   Soll, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SPHEROPLAST; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 0028985204     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.15.3.1797     Document Type: Article

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