Selective expression of the virulence factor BAD1 upon morphogenesis to the pathogenic yeast form of Blastomyces dermatitidis: Evidence for transcriptional regulation by a conserved mechanism

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 875-889

  Rooney, Peggy J ^a   Sullivan, Thomas D ^a   Klein, Bruce S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; ADHESIN 1; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRULENCE; YEAST;

BLASTOMYCES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; HISTOPLASMA; KINETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NORTH AMERICA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, FUNGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; AJELLOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; BLASTOMYCES; FUNGI;

EID: 0035117856     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02300.x     Document Type: Article

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