Candida albicans mutants in the BN14 gene have reduced cell-wall chitin and alterations in morphogenesis

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 3243-3252

  Rowbottom, Lynn ^a,b   Munro, Carol A ^a   Gow, Neil A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CHITIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1; PROTEIN BNI4; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SEPTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR SIZE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST CELL;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL WALL; CHITIN; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CITRUS LIMON; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 6444230033     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27167-0     Document Type: Article

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