The Cryptococcus neoformans MAP kinase Mpk1 regulates cell integrity in response to antifungal drugs and loss of calcineurin function

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1377-1387

  Kraus, Peter R ^a   Fox, Deborah S ^a   Cox, Gary M ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CALCINEURIN; CASPOFUNGIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL ENZYME; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NIKKOMYCIN Z; RNA;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL WALL; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DRUG TARGETING; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GROWTH INHIBITION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CALCINEURIN; CELL WALL; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED DBA; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0038460048     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03508.x     Document Type: Article

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