A large-scale complex haploinsufficiency-based genetic interaction screen in candida albicans: Analysis of the ram network during morphogenesis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Bharucha, Nike ^a   Chabrier Roselló, Yeissa ^b   Xu, Tao ^a   Johnson, Cole ^a   Sobczynski, Sarah ^b   Song, Qingxuan ^a   Dobry, Craig J ^a   Eckwahl, Matthew J ^a   Anderson, Christopher P ^a   Benjamin, Andrew J ^a   Kumar, Anuj ^a   Krysan, Damian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN ACE2; PROTEIN CBK1; PROTEIN EFG1; PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EFG1 PROTEIN, CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COMPLEX HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE CONTROL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC SCREENING; HEREDITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; TRANSPOSON; CELL NUCLEUS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; HETEROZYGOTE; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARANEAE; CANDIDA ALBICANS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; HETEROZYGOTE; HYPHAE; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79955613269     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002058     Document Type: Article

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