Dosage-dependent roles of the Cwt1 transcription factor for cell wall architecture, morphogenesis, drug sensitivity and virulence in Candida albicans

Yeast

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 77-87

  Moreno, Inmaculada ^a,c,d   Martinez Esparza, María ^b   Laforet, Leslie Carolina ^a   Sentandreu, Rafael ^a   Ernst, Joachim F ^c   Valentin, Eulogio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Universidad de Castilla La Mancha   (Spain)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Cell wall; Cwt1 transcription factor; Morphogenesis; Virulence

Indexed keywords

GLUCAN 1,3 BETA GLUCOSIDASE; MANNOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CWT1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; HETEROZYGOSITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CELL WALL; DNA, FUNGAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; HYPHAE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 76149114583     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: 10970061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1733     Document Type: Article

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