Protein kinase A encoded by TPK2 regulates dimorphism of Candida albicans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 386-396

  Sonneborn, Anja ^a   Bockmühl, Dirk P ^a   Gerads, Michaela ^a   Kurpanek, Katharina ^a   Sanglard, Dominique ^b   Ernst, Joachim F ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL ENZYME; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE MEDIA; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE DELETION; GENES, FUNGAL; ISOENZYMES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033979093     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01705.x     Document Type: Article

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