Antagonistic interplay of Swi1 and Tup1 on filamentous growth of Candida albicans

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 285, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 233-241

  Mao, Xuming ^a,b   Li, Yandong ^a   Wang, Huafeng ^a   Cao, Fang ^a   Chen, Jiangye ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Filamentous growth; Swi1; Tup1

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN SWI1; PROTEIN TUP1;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINS; AEROBIOSIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYPHAE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 47349105768     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01236.x     Document Type: Article

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