Antifungal azoxybacilin exhibits activity by inhibiting gene expression of sulfite reductase

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 127-132

  Aoki, Yuhko ^a   Yamamoto, Mutsumi ^a   Hosseini Mazinani, S M ^b   Koshikawa, Naoki ^b   Sugimoto, Kazunori ^b   Arisawa, Mikio ^a  

^a NIPPON ROCHE RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; AZOXYBACILIN; MESSENGER RNA; SULFITE REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0030045874     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.40.1.127     Document Type: Article

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