Roles for Inositol-phosphoryl ceramide synthase 1 (IPC1) in pathogenesis of C. neoformans

Genes and Development

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 201-212

  Luberto, Chiara ^a   Toffaletti, Dena L ^b   Wills, Elizabeth A ^b   Tucker, Stephanie C ^c   Casadevall, Arturo ^c   Perfect, John R ^b   Hannun, Yusuf A ^a   Del Poeta, Maurizio ^a,d  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus neoformans; Sphingolipids; Virulence

Indexed keywords

INOSITOL PHOSPHATE; MELANIN; SPHINGOLIPID; SPHINGOSINE ACYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENZYME REGULATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS IMMUNITY; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA PRIMERS; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MACROPHAGES; MELANINS; MICE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0035863069     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.856001     Document Type: Article

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