Chlamydospore formation in Candida albicans requires the Efg1p morphogenetic regulator

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 5514-5517

  Sonneborn, Anja ^a   Bockmühl, Dirk P ^a   Ernst, Joachim F ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PROTEIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE MUTATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPOROGENESIS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 0344199896     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.10.5514-5517.1999     Document Type: Article

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