The cAMP pathway is important for controlling the morphological switch to the pathogenic yeast form of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 761-779

  Chen, Daliang ^a   Janganan, Thamarai K ^a   Chen, Gongyou ^a,c   Marques, Everaldo R ^b   Kress, Marcia R ^b   Goldman, Gustavo H ^b   Walmsley, Adrian R ^a   Borges Walmsley, M Inês ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN BETA SUBUNIT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN GAMMA SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; BUCLADESINE; CYCLIC AMP; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MYCELIUM; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

FUNGI; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 34447581093     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05824.x     Document Type: Article

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