A Ras1-Cdc24 signal transduction pathway mediates thermotolerance in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1118-1130

  Nichols, Connie B ^a   Perfect, Zahra H ^a   Alspaugh, J Andrew ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

P21 ACTIVATED KINASE 1; PROTEIN CDC42; RAS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIFFERENTIATION; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; HEAT TOLERANCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; CELL POLARITY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MUTATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RAS PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLEEN; TEMPERATURE;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 33846622349     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05566.x     Document Type: Article

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