Rac1 dynamics in the human opportunistic fungal pathogen Candida albicans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Vauchelles, Romain ^a   Stalder, Danièle ^a   Botton, Thomas ^a   Arkowitz, Robert A ^a   Bassilana, Martine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAC1 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENOTYPE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HUMAN VERSUS NONHUMAN DATA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; PRENYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WILD TYPE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; HUMANS; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN;

EID: 78149451338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015400     Document Type: Article

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