Genetic and biochemical characterization of phosphofructokinase from the opportunistic pathogenic yeast Candida albicans

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 260, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 217-226

  Lorberg, Anja ^c   Kirchrath, Lutz ^a   Ernst, Joachim F ^c   Heinisch, Jürgen J ^b  

^a Amersham Biosciences   (United States)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GLYCOLYSIS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE-1; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033557828     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00132.x     Document Type: Article

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