Utilization of the mating scaffold protein in the evolution of a new signal transduction pathway for biofilm development

mBio

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Yi, Song ^a   Sahni, Nidhi ^a   Daniels, Karla J ^a   Lu, Kevin L ^a   Huang, Guanghua ^a   Garnaas, Adam M ^a   Pujol, Claude ^a   Srikantha, Thyagarajan ^a   Soll, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHEROMONE; PROTEIN CEK1; PROTEIN CEK2; PROTEIN CPH1; PROTEIN CST5; PROTEIN FAR1; PROTEIN HST7; PROTEIN STE11; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUNGAL PROTEIN; NUCLEAR MATRIX PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HORMONE RELEASE; MATING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETES;

BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; NUCLEAR MATRIX-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; PHEROMONES; PROTEIN BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79955080374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00237-10     Document Type: Article

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