Barrier activity in Candida albicans mediates pheromone degradation and promotes mating

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 907-918

  Schaefer, Dana ^a   Côte, Pierre ^b   Whiteway, Malcolm ^b   Bennett, Richard J ^a,c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; BAR1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; MATING HORMONE ALPHA FACTOR RECEPTOR; PEPTIDE; PHEROMONE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL SHAPE; CYTOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MATING FACTOR; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL SHAPE; GENE DELETION; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; PHEROMONES; RECEPTORS, MATING FACTOR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 34250865033     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00090-07     Document Type: Article

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