Relationship of the glyoxylate pathway to the pathogenesis of Cryptococcus neoformans

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 5684-5694

  Rude, Thomas H ^a   Toffaletti, Dena L ^a   Cox, Gary M ^a   Perfect, John R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYOXYLIC ACID; ISOCITRATE LYASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE COURSE; DOWN REGULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VIRULENCE; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FUNGAL; GLYOXYLATES; HUMANS; ISOCITRATE LYASE; MACROPHAGES; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RABBITS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0036786526     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.10.5684-5694.2002     Document Type: Article

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