A Ste6p/P-glycoprotein homologue from the asexual yeast Candida albicans transports the a-factor mating pheromone in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 587-598

  Raymond, Martine ^a   Dignard, Daniel ^b   Alarco, Anne Marie ^a   Mainville, Norman ^b   Magee, Beatrice B ^c   Thomas, David Y ^b,d  

^a CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; GLYCOPROTEIN P; PHEROMONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EPITOPE MAPPING; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FUNGAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; LIPOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; P-GLYCOPROTEIN; PHEROMONES; PLASMIDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031974651     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00704.x     Document Type: Article

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