Expression of TPK1 and TPK2 genes encoding PKA catalytic subunits during growth and morphogenesis in Candida albicans

Yeast

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 591-603

  Souto, Guadalupe ^a   Giacometti, Romina ^a   Silberstein, Susana ^a   Giasson, Luc ^b   Cantore, María Leonor ^a   Passeron, Susana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

3 RACE; Candida albicans; Dimorphism; mRNA levels; PKA; Poly(A) sites

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL RNA; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN TPK1; PROTEIN TPK2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; MORPHOGENESIS; MYCELIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN KINASES; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; RNA 3' POLYADENYLATION SIGNALS; RNA, MESSENGER;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 33746589474     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: 10970061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1377     Document Type: Article

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