Temperature-induced switch to the pathogenic yeast form of Histoplasma capsulatum requires Ryp1, a conserved transcriptional regulator

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4880-4885

  Nguyen, Van Q ^a   Sil, Anita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fungal pathogenesis; Gene regulation; Morphology

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN RYP1; PROTEIN WOR1; REGULATOR PROTEIN; FUNGAL DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOREGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRULENCE; YEAST CELL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CYTOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOPLASMA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATOR GENE; TEMPERATURE;

AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, SWITCH; HISTOPLASMA; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 42449127140     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0710448105     Document Type: Article

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