Dosage-dependent functions of fatty acid desaturase Ole 1p in growth and morphogenesis of Candida albicans

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1991-2003

  Krishnamurthy, Shankarling ^a   Plaine, Armêl ^a   Albert, Juliane ^a   Prasad, Tulika ^b   Prasad, Rajendra ^b   Ernst, Joachim F ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; MEMBRANE LIPID; OLEIC ACID; OXYGEN;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE REPRESSION; HYPOXIA; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 3142664749     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27029-0     Document Type: Article

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