The VIG9 gene products from the human pathogenic fungi Candida albicans and Candida glabrata encode GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects

Volumn 1475, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 265-272

  Ohta, Atsunori ^a   Chibana, Hiroji ^b   Arisawa, Mikio ^a   Sudoh, Masayuki ^a  

^a NIPPON ROCHE RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Candida spp.; GDP mannose; Gene cloning; Pyrophosphorylase

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE MANNOSE;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE MANNOSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0034718107     PISSN: 03044165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4165(00)00075-1     Document Type: Article

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