Pneumocystis PCINT1, a molecule with integrin-like features that mediates organism adhesion to fibronectin

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 747-761

  Kottom, Theodore J ^a   Kennedy, Cassie C ^a   Limper, Andrew H ^a,b  

^a Thoracic Diseases Research Unit   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGINYLGLYCYLASPARTIC ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FIBRONECTIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; INTEGRIN; PROTEIN PCINT1; SCLEROPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASM; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOME ANALYSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CALCIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBRONECTINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; INTEGRINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; PNEUMOCYSTIS;

EID: 38449102219     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.06093.x     Document Type: Article

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