Calcineurin is required for virulence of Cryptococcos neoformans

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2576-2589

  Odom, Audrey ^a   Muir, Scott ^a   Lim, Eric ^a   Toffaletti, Dena L ^a   Perfect, John ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcineurin; Cryptococcus neoformans; Cyclosporin A; FK506; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CALCINEURIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; CYCLOPHILIN A; IMMUNOPHILIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; TACROLIMUS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLONE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TEMPERATURE; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CALCINEURIN; CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEINS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYCLOSPORINE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; POLYENES; RABBITS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIROLIMUS; TACROLIMUS; TEMPERATURE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031008864     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.10.2576     Document Type: Article

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