Low dosage of histone H4 leads to growth defects and morphological changes in candida albicans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Zacchi, Lucia F ^a   Selmecki, Anna M ^a   Berman, Judith ^a   Davis, Dana A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H4; HISTONE;

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE NUMBER; GROWTH ACCELERATION; GROWTH DISORDER; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; TRISOMY; WILD TYPE; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CYTOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANEUPLOIDY; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC LOCI; HISTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 77956278020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010629     Document Type: Article

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