Signaling through protein kinases and transcriptional regulators in Candida albicans

Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 259-275

  Dhillon, Navneet K ^a   Sharma, Sadhna ^a   Khuller, G K ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CALCIUM ION; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; HISTIDINE; INOSITOL POLYPHOSPHATE; INOSITOL TRISPHOSPHATE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN NRG1; PROTEIN RFG1; PROTEIN TUP1; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CPH1P; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EFG1P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BUDDING; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; HOST; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SECOND MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; YEAST;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0141450719     PISSN: 1040841X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713610451     Document Type: Review

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