The GPI-anchored protein CaEcm33p is required for cell wall integrity, morphogenesis and virulence in Candida albicans

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 3341-3354

  Martinez Lopez, Raquel ^a   Monteoliva, Lucia ^a   Diez Orejas, Rosalia ^a   Nombela, César ^a   Gil, Concha ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGO RED; DYE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; GLYPICAN; HYGROMYCIN B; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN ECM33P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BRAIN INFECTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CELL INVASION; CELL WALL; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; FLOCCULATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DOSAGE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; KIDNEY INFECTION; LIQUID CULTURE; MOLECULAR SIZE; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHASE TRANSITION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SURVIVAL; WILD TYPE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL WALL; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; HYPHAE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MORPHOGENESIS; VIRULENCE;

ARANEAE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; MURINAE; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 6444222728     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27320-0     Document Type: Article

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