Global screening of potential Candida albicans biofilm-related transcription factors via network comparison

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wang, Yu Chao ^a   Lan, Chung Yu ^a   Hsieh, Wen Ping ^a   Murillo, Luis A ^b   Agabian, Nina ^b   Chen, Bor Sen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MOLECULAR MECHANISM; NETWORK COMPARISONS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCREENING APPROACHES; THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION;

CANDIDA; GENE THERAPY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; YEAST;

BIOFILMS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOLOGY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY;

BIOFILMS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME, FUNGAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77951192371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-53     Document Type: Article

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