Host-induced, stage-specific virulence gene activation in Candida albicans during infection

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 533-546

  Staib, Peter ^a   Kretschmar, Marianne ^b   Nichterlein, Thomas ^b   Köhler, Gerwald ^a   Michel, Sonja ^a   Hof, Herbert ^b   Hacker, Jörg ^a   Morschhäuser, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; FUNGAL DNA; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; RECOMBINASE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE FUSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 0032927712     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01367.x     Document Type: Article

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