Iron acquisition from transferrin by Candida albicans depends on the reductive pathway

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 5482-5492

  Knight, Simon A B ^a   Vilaire, Gaston ^a   Lesuisse, Emmanuel ^b   Dancis, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOTRANSFERRIN; HEME; IRON; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SIDEROPHORE; TRANSFERRIN;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL CONTACT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FTR1 GENE; FTR10 GENE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE CONTROL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IRON TRANSPORT; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

APOPROTEINS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COPPER; FERRICHROME; FUNGAL PROTEINS; IRON; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 23944502887     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.9.5482-5492.2005     Document Type: Article

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