The serine/threonine protein phosphatase SIT4 modulates yeast-to-hypha morphogenesis and virulence in Candida albicans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 691-709

  Lee, Chang Muk ^a   Nantel, André ^a,b   Jiang, Linghuo ^a,c   Whiteway, Malcolm ^a,b   Shen, Shi Hsiang ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCAN GLUCOSIDASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN SIT4; SERINE THREONINE PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH RATE; HEAT SHOCK; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WILD TYPE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MORPHOGENESIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 1242342959     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2003.03879.x     Document Type: Article

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