Identification of a putative response regulator two-component phosphorelay gene (CaSSK1) from Candida albicans

Yeast

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1243-1254

  Calera, José A ^a   Calderone, Richard A ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene; Phosphorylation; Response regulator; Signal transduction; Two component

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; LYSINE; MATRIX PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME 1; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE ISOLATION; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0033568172     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(19990915)15:12<1243::AID-YEA449>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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