Transcription profiling of Candida albicans cells undergoing the yeast-to-hyphal transition

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 3452-3465

  Nantel, André ^a   Dignard, Daniel ^a   Bachewich, Catherine ^a   Harcus, Doreen ^a   Marcil, Anne ^a   Bouin, Anne Pascale ^a   Sensen, Christoph W ^a   Hogues, Hervé ^a   Van het Hoog, Marco ^a   Gordon, Paul ^a   Rigby, Tracey ^a   Benoit, François ^a   Tessier, Daniel C ^a   Thomas, David Y ^a   Whiteway, Malcolm ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CPH1P; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EFG1P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA MICROARRAY; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRULENCE; YEAST; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036798450     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E02-05-0272     Document Type: Article

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