Unlocking the DEAD-box: A key to cryptococcal virulence?

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 593-595

  Heung, Lena J ^a   Del Poeta, Maurizio ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; RNA HELICASE;

CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 14644416507     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI24508     Document Type: Review

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