Molecular cloning of a gene encoding translation initiation factor (TIF) from Candida albicans

Medical Mycology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 393-400

  Mirbod, F ^a   Nakashima, S ^a   Kitajima, Y ^a   Ghannoum, M A ^b   Cannon, R D ^c   Nozawa, Y ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b St John's Cardiovascular Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; differential display; molecular cloning; TIF (translation initiation factor)

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; TRANSLATION INITIATION; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRULENCE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 79961130980     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02681219680000701     Document Type: Article

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