A putative dual-specific protein phosphatase encoded by YVH1 controls growth, filamentation and virulence in Candida albicans

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2223-2232

  Hanaoka, Nozomu ^a,b   Umeyama, Takashi ^a   Ueno, Keigo ^a,c,d   Ueda, Kenji ^c   Beppu, Teruhiko ^c   Fugo, Hajime ^b   Uehara, Yoshimasa ^a   Niimi, Masakazu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN YVH1P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGAR MEDIUM; ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GERM CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WILD TYPE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; GENES, FUNGAL; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; VIRULENCE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 22144496458     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27999-0     Document Type: Article

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