Development of a gene knockout system in Candida parapsilosis reveals a conserved role for BCR1 in biofilm formation

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1310-1319

  Ding, Chen ^a   Butler, Geraldine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CANDIDA; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; CANDIDA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; FUNGI;

EID: 34547862393     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00136-07     Document Type: Article

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