The ALS6 and ALS7 genes of Candida albicans

Yeast

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 847-855

  Hoyer, L L ^a   Hecht, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

ALS genes; Candida albicans; Gene families

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME 3; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TANDEM REPEAT; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 0034733686     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0061(20000630)16:9<847::AID-YEA562>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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