A unique fungal two-component system regulates stress responses, drug sensitivity, sexual development, and virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 3122-3135

  Bahn, Yong Sun ^a,b   Kojima, Kaihei ^a   Cox, Gary M ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Soongsil University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FLUDIOXONIL; MELANIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE HOG1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE PBS2; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SKN7 PROTEIN; SODIUM ION; SSK1 PROTEIN; TWO COMPONENT LIKE 1 PROTEIN; TWO COMPONENT LIKE 2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME REGULATION; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; MELANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SENSOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; TWO COMPONENT SYSTEM;

CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MELANINS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 33745635366     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E06-02-0113     Document Type: Article

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