SKN7 of Candida albicans: Mutant Construction and Phenotype Analysis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2390-2394

  Singh, Praveen ^a   Chauhan, Neeraj ^a   Ghosh, Anup ^a   Dixon, Freddie ^b   Calderone, Richard ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; SERUM AGAR; SPIDER AGAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGUS MUTANT; FUNGUS MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GROWTH REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REGULATOR GENE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKN7 GENE; SKN7P GENE; SSK1P GENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CULTURE MEDIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MICE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 1842483549     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.4.2390-2394.2004     Document Type: Article

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