PI3K signaling of autophagy is required for starvation tolerance and virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1186-1197

  Hu, Guowu ^a   Hacham, Moshe ^a   Waterman, Scott R ^a   Panepinto, John ^a   Shin, Soowan ^a   Liu, Xiaoguang ^a   Gibbons, Jack ^a   Valyi Nagy, Tibor ^a   Obara, Keisuke ^b   Jaffe, H Ari ^a   Ohsumi, Yoshinori ^b   Williamson, Peter R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CELL STRESS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STARVATION; VIRULENCE;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; CELL LINE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 40549093944     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI32053     Document Type: Article

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