Fungal nucleobase transporters

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 657-675

  Pantazopoulou, Areti ^a,b   Diallinas, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Kinetic modelling; Purine; Pyrimidine; Structure function relationships; Trafficking; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ADENINE; ALLOPURINOL; AZATHIOPRINE; CARBOVIR; CYTOSINE; FLUOROURACIL; GANCICLOVIR; GUANINE; HYPOXANTHINE; MERCAPTOPURINE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; NUCLEOBASE TRANSPORTER; PURINE; PYRIMETHAMINE; TIOGUANINE; URACIL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ASCOMYCETES; ASEXUAL SPORE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONIDIUM; DATA BASE; ENDOCYTOSIS; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL SPORE GERMINATION; GENOMICS; GOUT; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PURINE SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; NUCLEOBASE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; YEASTS;

ALGAE; ASCOMYCOTA; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; METAZOA; PROTOZOA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 35448943646     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2007.00083.x     Document Type: Review

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