Misexpression of the opaque-phase-specific gene PEP1 (SAP1) in the white phase of Candida albicans confers increased virulence in a mouse model of cutaneous infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 6652-6662

  Kvaal, Christopher ^a   Lachke, Salil A ^a   Srikantha, Thyagarajan ^a   Daniels, Karla ^a   Mccoy, James ^a   Soll, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPSTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL ADHESION; CELL STRUCTURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SKIN INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS, CUTANEOUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FUNGAL; MICE; PLASMIDS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0032722557     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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