Candida albicans Mds3p, a conserved regulator of pH responses and virulence identified through insertional mutagenesis

Genetics

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1573-1581

  Davis, Dana A ^a,c   Bruno, Vincent M ^a   Loza, Lucio ^b   Filler, Scott G ^b   Mitchell, Aaron P ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ADAPTATION; ALKALINITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DIPLOIDY; DRUG TARGETING; EPISTASIS; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; MALE; MDS3P GENE; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0036961514     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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