Construction and functional analysis of fatty acid desaturase gene disruptants in Candida albicans

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1551-1558

  Murayama, Somay Yamagata ^a   Negishi, Yumiko ^a,b,c   Umeyama, Takashi ^b   Kaneko, Aki ^b   Oura, Takahiro ^c   Niimi, Masakazu ^b   Ubukata, Kimiko ^a   Kajiwara, Susumu ^c  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; PALMITIC ACID; PALMITOLEIC ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC CODE; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST;

ALPHA-LINOLENIC ACID; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE DELETION; LINOLEIC ACID; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 33646809755     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28751-0     Document Type: Article

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