α-pheromone-induced "shmooing" and gene regulation require white-opaque switching during Candida albicans mating

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 847-855

  Lockhart, Shawn R ^a   Zhao, Rui ^a   Daniels, Karla J ^a   Soll, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; CAG1 PROTEIN, CANDIDA ALBICANS; CDR3 PROTEIN, CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; HWP1 PROTEIN, CANDIDA ALBICANS; MATING HORMONE ALPHA FACTOR RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; RECEPTOR; SAP1 PROTEIN, CANDIDA ALBICANS; SAP3 PROTEIN, CANDIDA ALBICANS; SAP9 PROTEIN, CANDIDA ALBICANS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURFACE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MATING FACTOR; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURFACE EXTENSIONS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, MATING FACTOR; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 0142153891     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.2.5.847-855.2003     Document Type: Article

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