Membrane homoeostasis and multidrug resistance in yeast

Bioscience Reports

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 217-228

  Panwar, Sneh Lata ^a   Pasrija, Ritu ^a,b   Prasad, Rajendra ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Candida; Ergosterol; Lipid raft; Multidrug resistance (MDR); Sphingolipid; Transporter

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; CARRIER PROTEIN; MEMBRANE LIPID;

CELL MEMBRANE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; YEAST;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MEMBRANE MICRODOMAINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; YEASTS;

EID: 58149124117     PISSN: 01448463     EISSN: 15734935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BSR20080071     Document Type: Review

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