Localization of a yeast-phase-specific gene product to the cell wall in Histoplasma capsulatum

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 3048-3054

  Weaver, Carol H ^a   Sheehan, Kathleen C F ^b   Keath, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST CELL;

EID: 0030054510     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.8.3048-3054.1996     Document Type: Article

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