Regulation of cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (COX1) expression in Cryptococcus neoformans by temperature and host environment

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1041-1049

  Toffaletti, Dena L ^a   Del Poeta, Maurizio ^b   Rude, Thomas H ^a   Dietrich, Fred ^a   Perfect, John R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GROWTH RATE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HOST; HYBRIDIZATION; INTRON; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SEROTYPE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; UPREGULATION; YEAST;

CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; TEMPERATURE;

EUKARYOTA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0038705053     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26021-0     Document Type: Review

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