Genetic characterization of a phospholipase C gene from Candida albicans: Presence of homologous sequences in Candida species other than Candida albicans

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-72

  Bennett, Désirée E ^a   McCreary, Christine E ^a   Coleman, David C ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; CAPLC1; Phosphoinositide specific phospholipase C; X domain

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4,5 BISPHOSPHATE PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA KRUSEI; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CLAVISPORA LUSITANIAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; ISSATCHENKIA ORIENTALIS; KLUYVEROMYCES MARXIANUS; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0031962931     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-1-55     Document Type: Article

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