Sensing the environment: Response of Candida albicans to the X factor

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-9

  Cottier, Fabien ^a   Mühlschlegel, Fritz A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Environment; Sensor; Signal pathway

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMMONIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FARNESOL; GLUCOSE; HOMOSERINE; LIGAND; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; NITROGEN; PHEROMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BIOSENSOR; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBON SOURCE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL STRESS; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE CONTROL; HYPOXIA; MICROBIOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUORUM SENSING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SHORT SURVEY; TEMPERATURE STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 65449119161     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01564.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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