DNA methylation regulates phenotype-dependent transcriptional activity in Candida albicans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 29, 2011, Pages 11965-11970

  Mishra, Prashant K ^a,b   Baum, Mary ^a   Carbon, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bisulfite sequencing; Dimorphic fungi; Gene expression; Genome evolution; Methylcytosine

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IRON METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL GENE; YEAST;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PRIMERS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 79961081499     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1109631108     Document Type: Article

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