Molecular cloning of a second phospholipase B gene, caPLB2 from Candida albicans

Medical Mycology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-67

  Sugiyama, Y ^a   Nakashima, S ^a   Mirbod, F ^a   Kanoh, H ^a   Kitajima, Y ^a   Ghannoum, M A ^b   Nozawa, Y ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Molecular cloning; Pathogenicity; Phospholipase B

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIUM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TORULASPORA;

EID: 0032983622     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-280X.1999.00190.x     Document Type: Article

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