Activation of the heat shock transcription factor Hsf1 is essential for the full virulence of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 297-305

  Nicholls, Susan ^a   MacCallum, Donna M ^a   Kaffarnik, Florian A R ^b,d   Selway, Laura ^a   Peck, Scott C ^c   Brown, Alistair J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Missouri   (United States)

^d DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Heat shock; Hsf1; Pathogenesis; Phosphorylation; Transcriptional activation

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; FEMALE; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HEAT SHOCK; HEAT TOLERANCE; KIDNEY INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULON;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; KIDNEY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 78751627330     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2010.08.010     Document Type: Article

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