Host versus in vitro signals and intrastrain allelic differences in the expression of a Candida albicans virulence gene

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1351-1366

  Staib, Peter ^a   Kretschmar, Marianne ^b   Nichterlein, Thomas ^b   Hof, Herbert ^b   Morschhäuser, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; SAP2 PROTEIN, CANDIDA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; FEMALE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; REPORTER GENE; VIRULENCE;

ALLELES; ANIMAL; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; HUMAN; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VIRULENCE; ANIMALS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS;

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 0036015655     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02967.x     Document Type: Article

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