Alternative mating type configurations (a/α versus a/a or α/α) of candida albicans result in alternative biofilms regulated by different pathways

PLoS Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Yi, Song ^a   Sahni, Nidhi ^a   Daniels, Karla J ^a   Lu, Kevin L ^a   Srikantha, Thyagarajan ^a   Huang, Guanghua ^a   Garnaas, Adam M ^a   Soll, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BREAKPOINT CLUSTER REGION PROTEIN; BREAKPOINT CLUSTER REGION PROTEIN 1; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN 35; CYCLIC AMP; DOXYCYCLINE; FLUCONAZOLE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHEROMONE; PROTEIN EFG1; RAS PROTEIN; RAS1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TEC1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EFG1 PROTEIN, CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEIN; TEC1 PROTEIN, CANDIDA ALBICANS;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MATING; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEUTROPHIL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PERMEABILITY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BIOFILMS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CYCLIC AMP; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; FLUCONAZOLE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; NEUTROPHILS; PERMEABILITY; PHOSPHORYLATION; RAS PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 80052318532     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001117     Document Type: Article

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