Metabolic adaptation in Cryptococcus neoformans during early murine pulmonary infection

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1456-1475

  Hu, Guanggan ^a   Cheng, Po Yan ^a   Sham, Anita ^a   Perfect, John R ^b   Kronstad, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ACETYL COENZYME A SYNTHETASE; COPPER; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; IRON; MELANIN; MONOSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE SNF1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACS1 GENE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BRAIN INFECTION; CARBON METABOLISM; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IRON TRANSPORT; LUNG INFECTION; METABOLIC REGULATION; MOUSE; NITROSATIVE STRESS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERIAL ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION; SUGAR TRANSPORT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ACETIC ACID; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CARBON; COENZYME A LIGASES; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; LUNG; MICE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; MUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 50049125079     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06374.x     Document Type: Article

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