Superoxide Dismutases in Candida albicans: Transcriptional Regulation and Functional Characterization of the Hyphal-induced SOD5 Gene

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 456-467

  Martchenko, Mikhail ^a   Alarco, Anne Marie ^b   Harcus, Doreen ^b   Whiteway, Malcolm ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; SUPEROXIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EFG1P; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RIM101P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CYTOSOL; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOD1 GENE; SOD3 GENE; SOD4 GENE; SOD5 GENE; SOD6 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; KIDNEY; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0742288065     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E03-03-0179     Document Type: Article

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