A C-terminal EGF-like domain governs BAD1 localization to the yeast surface and fungal adherence to phagocytes, but is dispensable in immune modulation and pathogenicity of Blastomyces dermatitidis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-65

  Brandhorst, Tristan ^a   Wüthrich, Marcel ^a   Finkel Jimenez, Beatriz ^a   Klein, Bruce ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BLASTOMYCES ADHESIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING ASSAY; BIOGENESIS; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL SURFACE; CELL WALL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE DELETION; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOMODULATION; LUNG; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOMYCES; DNA PRIMERS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLYCOPROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRULENCE;

AJELLOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; ANIMALIA; BLASTOMYCES; MURINAE;

EID: 0037384573     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03415.x     Document Type: Article

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