TAC1, transcriptional activator of CDR genes, is a new transcription factor involved in the regulation of Candida albicans ABC transporters CDR1 and CDR2

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1639-1652

  Coste, Alix T ^a   Karababa, Mahir ^a   Ischer, Françoise ^a   Bille, Jacques ^a   Sanglard, Dominique ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; CDR1 PROTEIN, CANDIDA ALBICANS; CDR2 PROTEIN, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE DELETION; GENOME; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TIME; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; UPREGULATION;

ALLELES; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; AZOLES; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENOME, FUNGAL; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 11144270183     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.3.6.1639-1652.2004     Document Type: Article

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