Depletion of polyubiquitin encoded by the UBI4 gene confers pleiotropic phenotype to Candida albicans cells

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 70-81

  Roig, Patricia ^a   Gozalbo, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Conditional mutant; Dimorphism; Heat shock response; Phenotypic switching; Polyubiquitin

Indexed keywords

POLYUBIQUITIN;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL STRUCTURE; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; HEAT SHOCK; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOSITY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UBI4 GENE; YEAST; YEAST CELL;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0038668930     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1087-1845(03)00004-5     Document Type: Article

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