Candida albicans CTN gene family is induced during macrophage infection: Homology, disruption and phenotypic analysis of CTN3 gene

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 783-793

  Prigneau, Odile ^a,c   Porta, Amalia ^a   Maresca, Bruno ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Carnitnine acetyl transferase; Filamentation; Fungi; Macrophage infection; Virulence

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARNITINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CARBON SOURCE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GERMINATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEROXISOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOLID; STARVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARNITINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CELL LINE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GLUCOSE; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; UP-REGULATION;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

EID: 3042694380     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2004.04.001     Document Type: Article

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