Some biological features of Candida albicans mutants for genes coding fungal proteins containing the CFEM domain

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 273-284

  Pérez, Ana ^a   Ramage, Gordon ^b   Blanes, Rosario ^a   Murgui, Amelia ^a   Casanova, Manuel ^a   Martínez, José P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b GLASGOW DENTAL HOSPITAL AND SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Biofilms; Cell surface hydrophobicity; Fungal cell surface proteins; PGA10; RBT5 and cSA1 WAP1 genes

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; FLUORESCENT DYE; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOFILM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL MEMBRANE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE CSA1; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE PGA10; GENE RBT5; HYDROPHOBICITY; LASER MICROSCOPY; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOFILMS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 79954425432     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2010.00714.x     Document Type: Article

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