Isolation of a petite mutant from a histidine auxotroph of Candida albicans and its characterization

Mycopathologia

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 127-135

  Roth Ben Arie, Z ^a   Altboum, Z ^b   Berdicevsky, I ^c   Segal, E ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Histidine auxotrophic mutant; Petite mutant; Respiratory deficient mutant

Indexed keywords

METHYLNITRONITROSOGUANIDINE; MUTAGENIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOLOGY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; METHYLNITRONITROSOGUANIDINE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENS; MYCOLOGY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 7344253547     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006988119891     Document Type: Article

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