Regulatory networks affected by iron availability in Candida albicans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1451-1469

  Lan, Chung Yu ^a   Rodarte, Gabriel ^a,d   Murillo, Luis A ^a   Jones, Ted ^b   Davis, Ronald W ^b   Dungan, Jan ^a   Newport, George ^a   Agabian, Nina ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLASE; IRON; SIDEROPHORE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL SURFACE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DNA MICROARRAY; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; IRON METABOLISM; IRON RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; IRON TRANSPORT; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; USTILAGO MAYDIS; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PERIPLASMIC BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 4444300862     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04214.x     Document Type: Article

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