Cloning and expression of squalene epoxidase from the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans

Gene

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 119-126

  Favre, B ^a   Ryder, N S ^a  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antimycotic; Candidiasis; erg1; gcd6; Sterol; Terbinafine

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; SQUALENE MONOOXYGENASE; STEROL; TERBINAFINE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA LIBRARY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC VECTORS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGENASES; RATS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SQUALENE MONOOXYGENASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030994851     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00844-X     Document Type: Article

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