Candida glabrata Ste20 is involved in maintaining cell wall integrity and adaptation to hypertonic stress, and is required for wild-type levels of virulence

Yeast

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 557-568

  Calcagno, Ana Maria ^a,b   Bignell, Elaine ^a   Rogers, Thomas R ^a   Canedo, Mariana ^a   Mühlschleger, Fritz A ^c   Haynes, Ken ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Candida glabrata; Cell wall integrity; Hypertonic stress response; STE20; Virulence

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; NITROGEN; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN CDC42; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN STE20; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; BINDING SITE; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MATING; MICROBIAL ATTENUATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STARVATION; STRESS; SURVIVAL; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDIASIS; CELL WALL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRULENCE;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA GLABRATA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 2542545784     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1125     Document Type: Article

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