Candida glabrata tryptophan-based pigment production via the Ehrlich pathway

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-47

  Brunke, Sascha ^a   Seider, Katja ^a   Almeida, Ricardo Sergio ^a   Heyken, Antje ^a   Fleck, Christian Benjamin ^a   Brock, Matthias ^a   Barz, Dagmar ^b   Rupp, Steffen ^c   Hube, Bernhard ^a,d  

^a HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTERFACIAL ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY IGB   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; CARBON; CYCLIC AMP; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PIGMENT; TRYPTOPHAN; TRANSPOSON;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CELL DAMAGE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTANT; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; TRANSPOSON; UPREGULATION; CELL CULTURE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

CANDIDA GLABRATA; FUNGI;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CARBON; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC AMP; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NEUTROPHILS; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 77950195250     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07052.x     Document Type: Article

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