Role of the Slt2 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway in cell wall integrity and virulence in Candida glabrata

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 343-352

  Miyazaki, Taiga ^a   Inamine, Tatsuo ^a   Yamauchi, Shunsuke ^a   Nagayoshi, Yosuke ^a   Saijo, Tomomi ^a   Izumikawa, Koichi ^a   Seki, Masafumi ^a   Kakeya, Hiroshi ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshihiro ^a   Yanagihara, Katsunori ^a   Miyazaki, Yoshitsugu ^b   Kohno, Shigeru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Candida glabrata; Cell wall integrity; Echinocandin; MAPK pathway; PH; SLT2

Indexed keywords

CASPOFUNGIN; ECHINOCANDIN; MICAFUNGIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE SLT2; NIKKOMYCIN Z; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RLM1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CELL DAMAGE; CELL WALL; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG TOLERANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FEMALE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TEMPERATURE; WILD TYPE;

AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDIASIS; CELL WALL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ECHINOCANDINS; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; HOT TEMPERATURE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

CANDIDA GLABRATA; MURINAE;

EID: 77950870711     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2010.00611.x     Document Type: Article

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