Cas3p belongs to a seven-member family of capsule structure designer proteins

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1513-1524

  Moyrand, Frédérique ^a   Chang, Yun C ^c   Himmelreich, Uwe ^b   Kwon Chung, Kyung J ^b   Janbon, Guilhem ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MANNOSE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYSACCHARIDE; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GENE DELETION; GENOME; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; MANNOSE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYSACCHARIDES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 11144291462     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.3.6.1513-1524.2004     Document Type: Article

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