Identifying essential genes in fungal pathogens of humans

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 456-462

  Firon, Arnaud ^a   D'Enfert, Christophe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SILENCING; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DRUG DESIGN; FUNGI; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AJELLOMYCES; AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; MAGNAPORTHE; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0036789811     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(02)02442-3     Document Type: Review

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