Candida albicans Rho-type GTPase-encoding genes required for polarized cell growth and cell separation

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 844-854

  Dünkler, Alexander ^a,b   Wendland, Jürgen ^a,b,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c CARLSBERG LABORATORY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL POLARITY; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL POLARITY; CYTOKINESIS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 34249744430     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00201-06     Document Type: Article

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