Terbinafine resistance in a pleiotropic yeast mutant is caused by a single point mutation in the ERG1 gene

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 309, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 666-671

  Klobučníková, Vlasta ^a   Kohút, Peter ^a   Leber, Regina ^b   Fuchsbichler, Sandra ^b   Schweighofer, Natascha ^b   Turnowsky, Friederike ^b   Hapala, Ivan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Antimycotic resistance; ERG1; Ergosterol biosynthesis; Squalene epoxidase; Terbinafine; Yeast

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; ERGOSTEROL; ITRACONAZOLE; NYSTATIN; TERBINAFINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ERG1 GENE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0041829399     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2003.08.051     Document Type: Article

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