Glucose sensing network in candida albicans: a sweet spot for fungal morphogenesis

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1314-1320

  Sabina, Jeffrey ^a   Brown, Victoria ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Campus Box 8510 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLUCOSE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GLUCOSE; MORPHOGENESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 69949129045     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00138-09     Document Type: Review

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