Protein O-mannosyltransferase isoforms regulate biofilm formation in Candida albicans

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3488-3491

  Peltroche Llacsahuanga, Heidrun ^a   Goyard, Sophie ^b   D'Enfert, Christophe ^b   Prill, Stephan K H ^c   Ernst, Joachim F ^c,d  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Institut for Mikrobiologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL ENZYME; ISOENZYME; MANNOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PMT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BIOFILMS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CULTURE MEDIA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; ISOENZYMES; MANNOSYLTRANSFERASES; MUTATION; POLYSTYRENES;

EID: 33749512972     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00606-06     Document Type: Article

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