Tetracyline-regulatable system to tightly control gene expression in the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 6712-6719

  Nakayama, Hironobu ^a   Mio, Toshiyuki ^a   Nagahashi, Shigehisa ^a   Kokado, Michiko ^a   Arisawa, Mikio ^a   Aoki, Yuko ^a  

^a NIPPON ROCHE RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; ELONGATION FACTOR 3; LUCIFERASE; PROTEIN N MYRISTOYLTRANSFERASE; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; VIRULENCE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; RENILLA RENIFORMIS;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DOXYCYCLINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MALE; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TETRACYCLINE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0034351185     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.12.6712-6719.2000     Document Type: Article

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