The Mep2p ammonium permease controls nitrogen starvation-induced filamentous growth in Candida albicans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 649-669

  Biswas, Kajal ^a   Morschhäuser, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM PERMEASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NITROGEN; PERMEASE; PROTEIN MEP1; PROTEIN MEP1P; PROTEIN MEP2; PROTEIN MEP2P; PROTEIN RAS1P; RAS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN STARVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYCLIC AMP; CYTOPLASM; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NITROGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RAS PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 17644386151     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04576.x     Document Type: Article

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