Differential expression of an hsp70 gene during transition from the mycelial to the infective yeast form of the human pathogenic fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1039-1050

  Da Silva, Silvana Petrofeza ^a,b   Borges Walmsley, Maria Ines ^c   Pereira, Ildinete Silva ^a   De Almeida Soares, Célia Maria ^b   Walmsley, Adrian Robert ^c   Felipe, Maria Sueli Soares ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; INTRON; MYCELIUM; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRESS; YEAST CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 0033031944     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01236.x     Document Type: Article

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