An extensive circuitry for cell wall regulation in Candida albicans

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Blankenship, Jill R ^a,b   Fanning, Saranna ^a,c   Hamaker, Jessica J ^b   Mitchell, Aaron P ^a,b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE; SEPTIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL POLARITY; CELL WALL; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PLANT STRESS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCREENING; FUNGAL GENE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL POLARITY; CELL WALL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN KINASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77649251688     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000752     Document Type: Article

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