Identification of a novel gene, URE2, that functionally complements a urease-negative clinical strain of Cryptococcus neoformans

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3723-3731

  Varma, Ashok ^a   Wu, Shaoxi ^b   Guo, Ningru ^b   Liao, Wanqing ^c   Lu, Guxia ^b   Li, Anshen ^b   Hu, Yonglin ^d   Bulmer, Glenn ^b   Kwon Chung, Kyung J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^c SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Zhenyi Medical College   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; PROTEIN URE2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA; UREASE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNGAL INFECTIONS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, FUNGAL; ELECTROPORATION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HUMANS; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NITROGEN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; UREA; UREASE; VIRULENCE;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 33845984520     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2006/000133-0     Document Type: Article

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