Dur3 is the major urea transporter in Candida albicans and is co-regulated with the urea amidolyase Dur1,2

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 270-279

  Navarathna, Dhammika H M L P ^a   Das, Aditi ^b   Morschhäuser, Joachim ^b   Nickerson, Kenneth W ^c   Roberts, David D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; LYASE; PROTEIN DUR1; PROTEIN DUR2; PROTEIN DUR3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLN3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FEMALE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CARBON-NITROGEN LIGASES; FUNGEMIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; STAINING AND LABELING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UREA; VIRULENCE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCETES;

EID: 78650720285     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.045005-0     Document Type: Article

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