Inner kinetochore of the pathogenic yeast Candida glabrata

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1154-1163

  Stoyan, Tanja ^a   Carbon, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CENTROMERE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

CANDIDA GLABRATA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 6344284641     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.3.5.1154-1163.2004     Document Type: Article

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