Identification of polymorphic mutant alleles of CaMDR1, a major facilitator of Candida albicans which confers multidrug resistance, and its in vitro transcriptional activation

Current Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 192-199

  Gupta, Vinita ^a   Kohli, Avmeet ^a   Krishnamurthy, Shankarling ^a   Puri, Neeti ^a   Aalamgeer, Syed Ahmed ^a   Panwar, Snehlata ^a   Prasad, Rajendra ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

C. albicans; Membrane facilitator; Multidrug resistance; Polymorphic alleles

Indexed keywords

4 NITROQUINOLINE 1 OXIDE; ANISOMYCIN; ASPARTIC ACID; BENOMYL; CERULENIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; FLUCONAZOLE; FUNGAL DNA; METHOTREXATE; PHENANTHROLINE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MDR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031692037     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050385     Document Type: Article

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