Molecular cloning and characterization of a Candida albicans gene coding for cytochrome C haem lyase and a cell wall-related protein

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-81

  Cervera, Ana M ^a,b   Gozalbo, Daniel ^a   McCreath, Kenneth J ^b   Gow, Neil A R ^b   Martínez, José P ^a   Casanova, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME C; GENE PRODUCT; LACTIC ACID; LYASE; MANNOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL WALL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; LYASES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031688431     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01039.x     Document Type: Article

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