The GATA-type transcriptional activator Gat1 regulates nitrogen uptake and metabolism in the human pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 192-199

  Kmetzsch, Lívia ^a   Staats, Charley Christian ^a   Simon, Elisa ^a   Fonseca, Fernanda L ^b   Oliveira, Débora L ^b   Joffe, Luna S ^b   Rodrigues, Jéssica ^b   Lourenço, Rogério F ^c   Gomes, Suely L ^c   Nimrichter, Leonardo ^b   Rodrigues, Marcio L ^b   Schrank, Augusto ^a   Vainstein, Marilene Henning ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus neoformans; Nitrogen Catabolite Repression; Nitrogen metabolism

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; NITROGEN; PROLINE; PROTEIN GAT1; RAPAMYCIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC REGULATION; MACROPHAGE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; MUTANT; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NITROGEN UPTAKE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; REGULON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRULENCE; ZINC FINGERS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 78649920352     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2010.07.011     Document Type: Article

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