Cryptococcus neoformans Kin1 protein kinase homologue, identified through a Caenorhabditis elegans screen, promotes virulence in mammals

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 407-419

  Mylonakis, Eleftherios ^a   Idnurm, Alexander ^b   Moreno, Roberto ^a   El Khoury, Joseph ^a   Rottman, James B ^c   Ausubel, Frederick M ^a,d   Heitman, Joseph ^b   Calderwood, Stephen B ^a,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Archemix Corporation   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KIN1 PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMOEBA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; KIN1 GENE; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; MAMMAL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SURVIVAL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BRAIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELLS, CULTURED; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; NEMATODA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 6344275552     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04310.x     Document Type: Article

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