Threonine biosynthetic genes are essential in Cryptococcus neoformans

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2767-2775

  Kingsbury, Joanne M ^a   McCusker, John H ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ASPARTATE KINASE; HOMOSERINE KINASE; NITROGEN; THREONINE; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; HOMOSERINE; LYASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; THREONINE SYNTHETASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL METABOLISM; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; TEMPERATURE;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

ASPARTATE KINASE; CARBON-OXYGEN LYASES; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HOMOSERINE; NITROGEN; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, FUNGAL; TEMPERATURE; THREONINE;

EID: 53449087032     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/019729-0     Document Type: Article

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