UME6 is a crucial downstream target of other transcriptional regulators of true hyphal development in Candida albicans

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 126-142

  Zeidler, Ute ^a   Lettner, Thomas ^a   Lassnig, Caroline ^b   Müller, Mathias ^b   Lajko, Robert ^b   Hintner, Helmut ^c   Breitenbach, Michael ^a   Bito, Arnold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Germ tube; Hyphal development; NRG1; UME6; Virulence

Indexed keywords

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 58149339808     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2008.00459.x     Document Type: Article

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