Morphological and Molecular Genetic Analysis of Epigenetic Switching of the Human Fungal Pathogen Candida albicans

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 734, Issue , 2011, Pages 303-315

  Hnisz, Denes ^b   Tscherner, Michael ^b   Kuchler, Karl ^a  

^a MAX F PERUTZ LABORATORIES   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Morphogenesis; Opaque; Phenotypic switching; White

Indexed keywords

CELL EXTRACT;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CYTOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; REGULATOR GENE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL EXTRACTS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENES, SWITCH; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

EID: 79960121017     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-086-7_15     Document Type: Chapter

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