Large-scale essential gene identification in Candida albicans and applications to antifungal drug discovery

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 167-181

  Roemer, Terry ^a,b   Jiang, Bo ^a,b   Davison, John ^a,b   Ketela, Troy ^a,b   Veillette, Karynn ^a,b   Breton, Anouk ^a,b   Tandia, Fatou ^a,b   Linteau, Annie ^a,b   Sillaots, Susan ^a,b   Marta, Catarina ^a,b   Martel, Nick ^a,b   Veronneau, Steeve ^a,b   Lemieux, Sebastien ^a,b   Kauffman, Sarah ^c   Becker, Jeff ^c   Storms, Reginald ^a,d   Boone, Charles ^a,e   Bussey, Howard ^a,f  

^a Elitra Canada   (Canada)

^b Elitra Pharmaceuticals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG TARGETING; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALLELES; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, FUNGAL; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0141818929     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03697.x     Document Type: Article

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