Medicinal genetics approach towards identifying the molecular target of a novel inhibitor of fungal cell wall assembly

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1029-1042

  Tsukahara, Kappei ^a   Hata, Katsura ^a   Nakamoto, Kazutaka ^a   Sagane, Koji ^a   Watanabe, Nao Aki ^a   Kuromitsu, Junro ^a   Kai, Junko ^a   Tsuchiya, Mamiko ^a   Ohba, Fuminori ^a   Jigami, Yoshifumi ^b   Yoshimatsu, Kentaro ^a   Nagasu, Takeshi ^a  

^a EISAI CO LTD   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 (4 BUTYLBENZYL)ISOQUINOLINE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; GENE PRODUCT; ISOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN GWT1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL ADHESION; CELL WALL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TARGETING; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE YJL091C; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL ADHESION; CELL WALL; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; INOSITOL; ISOQUINOLINES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0038662549     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03481.x     Document Type: Article

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