The Candida albicans CHS4 gene complements a Saccharomyces cerevisiae skt5/chs4 mutation and is involved in chitin biosynthesis

Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1613-1622

  Sudoh, Masayuki ^a   Tatsuno, Kenji ^a   Ono, Naomi ^a   Ohta, Atsunori ^a   Chibana, Hiroji ^b   Yamada Okabe, Hisafumi ^a   Arisawa, Mikio ^a  

^a NIPPON ROCHE RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Chitin synthesis; CHS4

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032780517     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-145-7-1613     Document Type: Article

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