Lung Epithelial Cells and Extracellular Matrix Components Induce Expression of Pneumocystis carinii STE20, a Gene Complementing the Mating and Pseudohyphal Growth Defects of ste20 Mutant Yeast

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6463-6471

  Kottom, Theodore J ^a   Köhler, Julia R ^b,c   Thomas Jr , Charles F ^a   Fink, Gerald R ^c   Limper, Andrew H ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Children's Hospital   (United States)

^c WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; FIBRONECTIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SCLEROPROTEIN; VITRONECTIN;

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FILOPODIUM; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LIFE CYCLE; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; MATING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STE20 GENE; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COLLAGEN; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FIBRONECTINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; LUNG; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; VITRONECTIN;

EID: 0242381210     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.11.6463-6471.2003     Document Type: Article

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