A functional analysis of the Candida albicans homolog of Saccharomyces cerevisiae VPS4

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 973-985

  Lee, Samuel A ^a,b   Jones, Jason ^a,b   Khalique, Zachary ^c   Kot, John ^c   Alba, Mercedes ^a,b   Bernardo, Stella ^a,b   Seghal, Alfica ^c   Wong, Brian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Protein secretion; Secreted aspartyl proteases; Vacuole; VPS

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUPERNATANT; VACUOLAR PROTEIN SORTING 4 GENE; WILD TYPE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOXYPEPTIDASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS;

BOVINAE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 34547867379     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2007.00253.x     Document Type: Article

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