A Candida albicans-specific region of the α-pheromone receptor plays a selective role in the white cell pheromone response

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 925-947

  Yi, Song ^a   Sahni, Nidhi ^a   Pujol, Claude ^a   Daniels, Karla J ^a   Srikantha, Thyagarajan ^a   Ma, Ning ^a   Soll, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHEROMONE; PHEROMONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN STE2P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL ADHESION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHEROMONES; RECEPTORS, MATING FACTOR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 60349093696     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06575.x     Document Type: Article

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