Calcineurin controls growth, morphology, and pathogenicity in Aspergillus fumigatus

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1091-1103

  Steinbach, William J ^a   Cramer Jr , Robert A ^a   Perfect, B Zachary ^a   Asfaw, Yohannes G ^a   Sauer, Theodor C ^a   Najvar, Laura K ^b   Kirkpatrick, William R ^b   Patterson, Thomas F ^b   Benjamin Jr , Daniel K ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a   Perfect, John R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACTERIAL COUNT; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; CYTOLOGY; DBA MOUSE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; CALCINEURIN; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, INBRED ICR; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; NEUROASPERGILLOSIS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGI;

EID: 33746239608     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00139-06     Document Type: Article

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