The DEAD-box RNA helicase Vad1 regulates multiple virulence-associated genes in Cryptococcus neoformans

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 632-641

  Panepinto, John ^a,f   Liu, Lide ^a   Ramos, Jeanie ^a   Zhu, Xudong ^a   Valyi Nagy, Tibor ^b   Eksi, Saliha ^c   Fu, Jianmin ^d   Jaffe, H Ari ^a   Wickes, Brian ^d   Williamson, Peter R ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^e JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f M/C 735 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACCASE; RNA HELICASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFECTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; GLUCONEOGENESIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; UPREGULATION; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LACCASE; MICE; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA HELICASES;

EID: 20044375362     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI200523048     Document Type: Article

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