Hyphal development in Candida albicans requires two temporally linked changes in promoter chromatin for initiation and maintenance

PLoS Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Lu, Yang ^a   Su, Chang ^a   Wang, Allen ^a   Liu, Haoping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE NUA4; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 1; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; PROTEIN NRG1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL FATE; CHROMATIN; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGUS HYPHAE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMATIN; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HYPHAE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 79960921059     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001105     Document Type: Article

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