The Yeast Protein Kinase C Cell Integrity Pathway Mediates Tolerance to the Antifungal Drug Caspofungin through Activation of Slt2p Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Signaling

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1200-1210

  Reinoso Martín, Cristina ^a   Schüller, Christoph ^a,b   Schuetzer Muehlbauer, Manuela ^a   Kuchler, Karl ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MAX F PERUTZ LABORATORIES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CASPOFUNGIN; CELL EXTRACT; CYCLOPEPTIDE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN KINASE C; RIM1 PROTEIN, FUNGUS; RIM101 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SLT2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TOLERANCE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CELL EXTRACTS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; DRUG TOLERANCE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FUNGAL; KINETICS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PEPTIDES; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASE C; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0346433839     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.2.6.1200-1210.2003     Document Type: Article

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