Mitochondrial functioning of constitutive iron uptake mutations in Cryptococcus neoformans

Mycopathologia

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-6

  Jacobson, Eric S ^a,b   Troy, Amanda J ^a   Nyhus, Karin J ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ferric reductase; Frataxin; Iron sulfur clusters; Regulation

Indexed keywords

CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; FERRIC CITRATE IRON REDUCTASE; FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; FUNGAL DNA; IRON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA, FUNGAL; FMN REDUCTASE; HUMANS; IRON; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 17744395801     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-004-2223-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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