Ras links cellular morphogenesis to virulence by regulation of the MAP kinase and cAMP signalling pathways in the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 673-687

  Leberer, Ekkehard ^a,b,d   Harcus, Doreen ^a   Dignard, Daniel ^a   Johnson, Lyne ^a   Ushinsky, Sophia ^a   Thomas, David Y ^a,b   Schröppel, Klaus ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d SANOFI AVENTIS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; CYCLIC AMP; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; RAS PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CELL MUTANT; CELL VIABILITY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME REGULATION; KIDNEY INFECTION; MORPHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TECHNIQUE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYCLIC AMP; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; RAS PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0035159043     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02672.x     Document Type: Article

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