The morphogenetic regulator Czf1p is a DNA-binding protein that regulates white-opaque switching in Candida albicans

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2877-2884

  Vinces, Marcelo D ^a,b   Kumamoto, Carol A ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN CZF1 P; PROTEIN EFG1 P; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SWITCHING; HYBRID GENE; IN VITRO STUDY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 34948892108     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/005983-0     Document Type: Article

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