Antimicrobial peptide MUC7 12-mer activates the calcium/calcineurin pathway in Candida albicans

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 579-586

  Lis, MacIej ^a   Liu, Teresa T ^b,c   Barker, Katherine S ^b,c   Rogers, P David ^b,c   Bobek, Libuse A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c LE BONHEUR CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

antimicrobial peptide; calcium signalling; Candida albicans; transcription profiling

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE MUC7 12 MER; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TACROLIMUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; MUC7 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MUCIN; SALIVA PROTEIN;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL STRESS; CELL WALL; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG POTENTIATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IRON METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MUCINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SALIVARY PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77954521548     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2010.00638.x     Document Type: Article

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