Candida albicans phosphatidylinositol synthase has common features with both Saccharomyces cerevisiae and mammalian phosphatidylinositol synthases

Yeast

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 449-456

  Antonsson, Bruno E ^a   Klig, Lisa S ^a,b  

^a GLAXO INST FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; inositol; phosphatidylinositol

Indexed keywords

CYTIDINE DIPHOSPHATE DIACYLGLYCEROL INOSITOL 3 PHOSPHATIDYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CDP-DIACYLGLYCEROL-INOSITOL 3-PHOSPHATIDYLTRANSFERASE; CHLORIDES; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; MAMMALS; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; NUCLEOTIDES; PHOSPHATES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TRANSFERASES (OTHER SUBSTITUTED PHOSPHATE GROUPS);

EID: 0029890329     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(199604)12:5<449::AID-YEA927>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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