Characterization of the CaENG1 gene encoding an endo-1,3-β-glucanase involved in cell separation in Candida albicans

Current Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 385-392

  Esteban, Pedro Felipe ^a   Ríos, Inmaculada ^b   García, Raúl ^a,b   Dueñas, Encarnación ^a   Plá, Jesús ^b   Sánchez, Miguel ^a,b   Vázquez De Aldana, Carlos R ^a   Del Rey, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ENDO 1,3 BETA GLUCANASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL CULTURE; CELL MUTANT; CELL SEPARATION; DNA PROBE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GROWTH RATE; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCREENING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME, FUNGAL; GLUCAN 1,3-BETA-GLUCOSIDASE; GLUCAN ENDO-1,3-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDASE; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 28744447572     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-005-0066-2     Document Type: Article

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