WdChs4p, a homolog of chitin synthase 3 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, alone cannot support growth of Wangiella (Exophiala) dermatitidis at the temperature of infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 6619-6630

  Wang, Zheng ^a   Zheng, Li ^a   Hauser, Melinda ^b   Becker, Jeffery M ^b   Szaniszlo, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EXOPHIALA; FUNGUS GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRUCTURAL GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHITIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; EXOPHIALA; GENE DELETION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOSES; PLASMIDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TEMPERATURE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0032720194     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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