Loss of allergen 1 confers a hypervirulent phenotype that resembles mucoid switch variants of Cryptococcus neoformans

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 128-140

  Jain, Neena ^a   Li, Li ^a   Hsueh, Ye Ping ^b   Guerrero, Abraham ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^b   Goldman, David L ^a   Fries, Bettina C ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM PROTEIN;

ALLERGEN 1 GENE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL RATE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RATS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 58449128865     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01079-08     Document Type: Article

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