Glutathione biosynthesis in the yeast pathogens Candida glabrata and Candida albicans: Essential in C. glabrata, and essential for virulence in C. albicans

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 484-495

  Yadav, Amit Kumar ^a   Desai, Prashant Ramesh ^a   Rai, Maruti Nandan ^b   Kaur, Rupinder ^b   Ganesan, Kaliannan ^a   Bachhawat, Anand Kumar ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b CENTRE FOR DNA FINGERPRINTING AND DIAGNOSTICS   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH MOHALI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE SYNTHASE; GLUTATHIONE SYNTHASE 1; METHIONINE; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDIASIS; CELL SURVIVAL; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACROPHAGE; MET15 GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GLUTAMATE-CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; MURINAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 79951471481     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.045054-0     Document Type: Article

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