Inositol synthesis and catabolism in Cryptococcus neoformans

Yeast

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 1657-1667

  Molina, Yanira ^a   Ramos, Susan E ^a   Douglass, Thomas ^a   Klig, Lisa S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

'Inositol less death'; Cryptococcus neoformans; Inositol metabolism; Inositol synthesis

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; GLUCURONIC ACID; INOSITOL; MEMBRANE PHOSPHOLIPID; MYOINOSITOL 1 PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; OXYGENASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGUS MUTANT; METABOLIC REGULATION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERTANT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; INOSITOL; INOSITOL OXYGENASE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MYO-INOSITOL-1-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; OXYGENASES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, FUNGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0032743056     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(199911)15:15<1657::AID-YEA493>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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