Transcriptional profiling of the Candida albicans Ssk1p receiver domain point mutants and their virulence

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 756-763

  Menon, Veena ^a   De Bernardis, Flavia ^b   Calderone, Richard ^a   Chauhan, Neeraj ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Point mutants; Response regulator; Two component proteins

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ADENYLATE CYCLASE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PEROXIDE; SSK1P PROTEIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLR1 GENE; GSH1 GENE; GSH2 GENE; HOMEOSTASIS; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT; VAGINA; VAGINA MUCOSA; VAGINITIS; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POINT MUTATION; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VAGINA; VAGINITIS; VIRULENCE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; MURINAE; RATTUS;

EID: 49349110156     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2008.00404.x     Document Type: Article

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