Candida albicans, a distinctive fungal model for cellular aging study

Aging Cell

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 746-757

  Fu, Xiao Hong ^a   Meng, Fei Long ^a   Hu, Yan ^a   Zhou, Jin Qiu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Aging; Candida albicans; Extra chromosomal rDNA molecules; Model; Old cell preparation; SIR2

Indexed keywords

EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA; GLYCOGEN; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN 2;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL AGING; CELL DIVISION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; YEAST CELL;

ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL AGING; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIRTUINS; TIME FACTORS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 52449113146     PISSN: 14749718     EISSN: 14749726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2008.00424.x     Document Type: Article

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