Extracellular phospholipase activity is a virulence factor for Cryptococcus neoformans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 166-175

  Cox, Gary M ^a   McDade, Henry C ^a   Chen, Sharon C A ^b   Tucker, Stephanie C ^c   Gottfredsson, Magnus ^a   Wright, Lesley C ^b   Sorrell, Tania C ^b   Eidich, Steven D ^d   Casadevall, Arturo ^c   Ghannoum, Mahmoud A ^d   Perfect, John R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; HYDROLASE; LACCASE; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE; UREASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; GENES, FUNGAL; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE; MACROPHAGES; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MICE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PHOSPHOLIPASES; RABBITS;

ANIMALIA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0035179848     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02236.x     Document Type: Article

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