Extracellular vesicles produced by Cryptococcus neoformans contain protein components associated with virulence

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-67

  Rodrigues, Marcio L ^a   Nakayasu, Ernesto S ^b   Oliveira, Debora L ^a   Nimrichter, Leonardo ^a   Nosanchuk, Joshua D ^c   Almeida, Igor C ^b   Casadevall, Arturo ^a,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

FUNGUS ANTIGEN; LACCASE; UREASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEOMICS; TRANSPORT VESICLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRULENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL WALL; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HUMANS; LACCASE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEOMICS; TRANSPORT VESICLES; UREASE; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 40649121336     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00370-07     Document Type: Article

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