Identification of a negative regulatory element which regulates basal transcription of a multidrug resistance gene CDR1 of Candida albicans

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 4, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 389-399

  Gaur, Naseem Akhtar ^a   Puri, Neeti ^b   Karnani, Neerja ^c   Mukhopadhyay, Gauranga ^a   Goswami, Shyamal K ^a   Prasad, Rajendra ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c RANBAXY LABORATORIES LTD   (India)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; CDR1; Multidrug resistance; Promoter

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; FUNGAL PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; NEGATIVE REGULATORY ELEMENT PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CROSS LINKING; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REPORTER GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; RENILLA; RENILLA LUCIFERASE;

EID: 0742269679     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-1356(03)00204-6     Document Type: Article

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