A genome-wide steroid response study of the major human fungal pathogen Candida albicans

Mycopathologia

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-17

  Banerjee, Dibyendu ^a   Martin, Nuria ^b   Nandi, Soumyadeep ^a   Shukla, Sudhanshu ^a   Dominguez, Angel ^b   Mukhopadhyay, Gauranga ^a   Prasad, Rajendra ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Candidiasis; Gene regulation; Steroid response; Stress response; Transcription profiling

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROGESTERONE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; NORTHERN BLOTTING;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROGESTERONE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 34250866241     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-007-9025-8     Document Type: Article

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