Candida albicans mutants deficient in respiration are resistant to the small cationic salivary antimicrobial peptide histatin 5

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 348-354

  Gyurko, Csilla ^a   Lendenmann, Urs ^a   Troxler, Robert F ^a,b   Oppenheim, Frank G ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CARBONYL CYANIDE CHLOROPHENYLHYDRAZONE; HISTATIN 5; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; OXYGEN; SODIUM AZIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL LEVEL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; FUNGICIDAL ACTIVITY; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ACRIFLAVINE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBONYL CYANIDE M-CHLOROPHENYL HYDRAZONE; CATIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; MUTATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PEPTIDES; SALIVA; SALIVARY PROTEINS; SODIUM AZIDE;

EID: 0033977173     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.44.2.348-354.2000     Document Type: Article

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