Msn2- and Msn4-like transcription factors play no obvious roles in the stress responses of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1111-1123

  Nicholls, Susan ^a   Straffon, Melissa ^a,c   Enjalbert, Brice ^b   Nantel, André ^b   Macaskill, Susan ^a   Whiteway, Malcolm ^b   Brown, Alistair J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MSN2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 4344645535     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.3.5.1111-1123.2004     Document Type: Article

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