Transcriptional network of multiple capsule and melanin genes governed by the Cryptococcus neoformans cyclic AMP cascade

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 190-201

  Pukkila Worley, Read ^a   Gerrald, Quincy D ^a   Kraus, Peter R ^a   Boily, Marie Josée ^a   Davis, Matthew J ^a   Giles, Steven S ^a   Cox, Gary M ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a   Alspaugh, J Andrew ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIC AMP; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; GPA1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; LACCASE; MELANIN; MESSENGER RNA; OXYGEN; PRIMER DNA; RNA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE MODEL; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; MUTATION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYCLIC AMP; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS; LACCASE; MELANINS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXYGEN; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 13744252513     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.4.1.190-201.2005     Document Type: Article

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