Functional specificity of Candida albicans Als3p proteins and clade specificity of ALS3 alleles discriminated by the number of copies of the tandem repeat sequence in the central domain

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 673-681

  Oh, Soon Hwan ^a   Cheng, Georgina ^a   Nuessen, Jennifer A ^a   Jajko, Robert ^a   Yeater, Kathleen M ^a   Zhao, Xiaomin ^a   Pujol, Claude ^b   Soll, David R ^b   Hoyer, Lois L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN ALS3P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; WILD TYPE;

ALLELES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL ADHESION; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HUMANS; PHARYNX; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; UMBILICAL VEINS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 15844394804     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27680-0     Document Type: Article

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