Expression levels of a filament-specific transcriptional regulator are sufficient to determine Candida albicans morphology and virulence

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 599-604

  Carlisle, Patricia L ^a   Banerjee, Mohua ^a   Lazzell, Anna ^b   Monteagudo, Carlos ^c   López Ribot, José L ^b   Kadosh, David ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Filamentous growth; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FEMALE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HYPHAE; MICE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 58849131459     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804061106     Document Type: Article

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