Candida albicans lacking the frataxin homologue: A relevant yeast model for studying the role of frataxin

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 507-519

  Santos, Renata ^a   Buisson, Nicole ^a   Knight, Simon A B ^b   Dancis, Andrew ^b   Camadro, Jean Michel ^a   Lesuisse, Emmanuel ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACONITATE HYDRATASE; CYTOCHROME; FERROCHELATASE; FRATAXIN; GENE PRODUCT; HEME; IRON; PROTOPORPHYRINOGEN OXIDASE; QUERCETIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SIDEROPHORE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; CAHEM14 GENE; CAHEM15 GENE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CAYFH1 GENE; CELL SECRETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEME SYNTHESIS; IRON DEPLETION; IRON STORAGE; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; MITOCHONDRION; MODEL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL RESPIRATION; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEME; HUMANS; IRON; IRON-BINDING PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PORPHYRINS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 6344272773     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04281.x     Document Type: Article

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