Candida albicans Sfl1 suppresses flocculation and filamentation

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1736-1744

  Bauer, Janine ^b   Wendland, Jürgen ^a  

^a CARLSBERG LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; FLOCCULATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL NUCLEUS; FLOCCULATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENES, FUNGAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYPHAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; UP-REGULATION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 35348813263     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00236-07     Document Type: Article

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