Candida albicans ALS3 and insights into the nature of the ALS gene family

Current Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 451-459

  Hoyer, Lois L ^a,b,c   Payne, Tracie L ^a   Bell, Maren ^c,e   Myers, Alan M ^b   Scherer, Stewart ^c,d,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Acacia Biosciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Differential gene regulation; Gene family; Hyphal specific

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031819787     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050359     Document Type: Article

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