Conserved cAMP signaling cascades regulate fungal development and virulence

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 349-364

  D'Souza, Cletus A ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cAMP signaling; Fungal development; Regulatory cascade; Virulence

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE T; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DEVELOPMENT; MATING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; USTILAGO MAYDIS; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; USTILAGO; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0035009918     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(01)00058-4     Document Type: Review

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