Cloning of the Candida albicans homolog of Saccharomyces cerevisiae GSC1/FKS1 and its involvement in β-1,3-glucan synthesis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 4096-4105

  Mio, Toshiyuki ^a   Adachi Shimizu, Miki ^a   Tachibana, Yukako ^a   Tabuchi, Hisahiro ^a   Inoue, Shunsuke B ^a   Yabe, Tomio ^a   Yamada Okabe, Toshiko ^b   Arisawa, Mikio ^a   Watanabe, Takahide ^a   Yamada Okabe, Hisafumi ^a  

^a NIPPON ROCHE RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,3 BETA GLUCAN SYNTHASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ASPERGILLUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 14444283595     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.13.4096-4105.1997     Document Type: Article

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