WdChs1p, a class II chitin synthase, is more responsible than WdChs2p (Class I) for normal yeast reproductive growth in the polymorphic, pathogenic fungus Wangiella (Exophiala) dermatitidis

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 316-329

  Zheng, Li ^a,c   Mendoza, Leonel ^a,d   Wang, Zheng ^a,e   Liu, Hongbo ^a,f   Park, Changwon ^a   Kauffman, Sarah ^b   Becker, Jeffrey M ^b   Szaniszlo, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c United States Patent and Trademark Office   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f WYETH RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE; ISOENZYME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL BUDDING; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SEPARATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAUGHTER CELL; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME POLYMORPHISM; EXOPHIALA; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MYCELIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR DIVISION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; WANGIELLA DERMATITIDIS; WILD TYPE; YEAST; YEAST CELL;

ANIMALS; CHITIN SYNTHASE; EXOPHIALA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; MYCOSES; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; EXOPHIALA; EXOPHIALA DERMATITIDIS; FUNGI;

EID: 33646001075     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-006-0101-0     Document Type: Article

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