Use of green fluorescent protein fusions to analyse the N- And C-terminal signal peptides of GPI-anchored cell wall proteins in Candida albicans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1617-1628

  Mao, Yuxin ^a   Zhang, Zimei ^a   Wong, Brian ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIS3P PROTEIN; BETA GLUCAN HYDROLASE; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLUCAN; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HWP1P PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; OMEGA AMINO ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; RBT5P PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURFACE; COVALENT BOND; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 0346256791     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03794.x     Document Type: Article

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