Nutrient signaling through TOR kinases controls gene expression and cellular differentiation in fungi

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 279, Issue , 2003, Pages 53-72

  Rohde, J R ^a   Cardenas, M E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FUNGAL PROTEIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2A; PROTEIN KINASE; RAPAMYCIN; RAPAMYCIN DERIVATIVE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYTOSKELETON; DERMATOPHYTE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST; YEAST CELL;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; NITROGEN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIROLIMUS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0042322392     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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