Pentamidine inhibition of group I intron splicing in Candida albicans correlates with growth inhibition

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 958-966

  Miletti, Karl E ^b   Leibowitz, Michael J ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; PENTAMIDINE DERIVATIVE; PENTAMIDINE ISETHIONATE; RIBOSOME RNA; RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG MECHANISM; FUNGUS GROWTH; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; RNA SPLICING;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PRIMERS; INTRONS; KINETICS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PENTAMIDINE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, FUNGAL;

EID: 0034021518     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.44.4.958-966.2000     Document Type: Article

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