Epigenetic properties of white-opaque switching in Candida albicans are based on a self-sustaining transcriptional feedback loop

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 34, 2006, Pages 12807-12812

  Zordan, Rebecca E ^a   Galgoczy, David J ^a   Johnson, Alexander D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Phenotypic switching; Transcriptional regulation; WOR1

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HERITABILITY; MATING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REGULATORY DNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COLOR; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, SWITCH; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 33748030763     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0605138103     Document Type: Article

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