Isolation and characterization of a gene encoding α-tubulin from Candida albicans

Gene

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 151-158

  Daly, Simona ^a   Yacoub, Adly ^b   Dundon, William ^b,c   Mastromei, Giorgio ^a   Islam, Khalid ^b   Lorenzetti, Rolando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Gruppo Lepetit SpA   (Italy)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Amino acid sequence; Complementation; Nucleotide sequence; Recombinant DNA

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COLD SENSITIVITY; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE ISOLATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TUBULIN;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030932274     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00737-8     Document Type: Article

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