Novel subfamily of mitochondrial HMG box-containing proteins: Functional analysis of Gcf1p from Candida albicans

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1226-1240

  Visacka, Katarina ^a   Gerhold, Joachim M ^b   Petrovicova, Jana ^a   Kinsky, Slavomir ^a   Jöers, Priit ^b   Nosek, Jozef ^a   Sedman, Juhan ^b   Tomaska, Lubomir ^a  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN GCF1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DNA METABOLISM; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HMGB PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 65649108472     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.025759-0     Document Type: Article

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