Role of the Npr1 kinase in ammonium transport and signaling by the ammonium permease Mep2 in Candida albicans

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 332-342

  Neuhäuser, Benjamin ^a   Dunkel, Nico ^a   Satheesh, Somisetty V ^a   Morschhäuser, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; PROTEIN KINASES; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 79952303422     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00293-10     Document Type: Article

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