Aquaporin expression and freeze tolerance in Candida albicans

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 6434-6437

  Tanghe, An ^a   Carbrey, Jennifer M ^b   Agre, Peter ^b   Thevelein, Johan M ^a   Van Dijck, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; GLYCEROL; MICROORGANISMS; PROTEINS; WATER;

AQUAPORIN EXPRESSION; AQUAPORIN-ENCODING; AQUAPORINS; FREEZE TOLERANCE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AQUAPORIN; GLYCEROL; INTEGRIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; WATER;

FREEZE TOLERANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEIN;

AQY1 GENE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FREEZING TOLERANCE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; WATER TRANSPORT;

AQUAPORINS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FREEZING; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 26844524944     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.10.6434-6437.2005     Document Type: Article

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