A Candida albicans cell wall-linked protein promotes invasive filamentation into semi-solid medium

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 733-748

  Zucchi, Paola C ^a   Davis, Talya R ^a   Kumamoto, Carol A ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTIVE IN FILAMENTOUS INVASION 1 PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CEK1 PROTEIN, CANDIDA ALBICANS; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CARBOHYDRATE INTERACTION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CANDIDIASIS; CELL WALL; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRULENCE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; MURINAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CELL WALL; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRULENCE;

EID: 77951519862     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07137.x     Document Type: Article

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