Cloning and regulated expression of the Candida albicans phospholipase B (PLB1) gene

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 163-169

  Hoover, Charles I ^a,b   Jantapour, Mary J ^a   Newport, George ^a   Agabian, Nina ^a,b   Fisher, Susan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Candida; Gene regulation; Lysophospholipase; Phospholipase B

Indexed keywords

LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HUMANS; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0031756513     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00383-8     Document Type: Article

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