Chloride channel-dependent copper acquisition of laccase in the basidiomycetous fungus Cryptococcus neoformans

Science China Life Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 125-130

  Zhu, ChangWei ^a   Jiang, Nan ^a   Xiao, DongGuang ^b   Pan, Jiao ^a   Zhu, XuDong ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Chloride channel; Copper homeostasis; Cryptococcus neoformans; Laccase

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE CHANNEL; COPPER; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LACCASE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CHLORIDE CHANNELS; COPPER; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEOSTASIS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACCASE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 76649101768     PISSN: 16747305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11427-010-0021-8     Document Type: Article

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