The copper regulon of the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans H99

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1560-1576

  Ding, Chen ^a   Yin, Jun ^b   Tovar, Edgar Mauricio Medina ^c   Fitzpatrick, David A ^d   Higgins, Desmond G ^b   Thiele, Dennis J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CNCTR1 PROTEIN; CNCTR4 PROTEIN; COPPER; FERRIC CUPRIC CHELATE REDUCTASE; GENE PRODUCT; ISOCHORISMATASE; MELANIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE DECARBOXYLASE; PROTEIN CMT1; PROTEIN CMT2; PROTEIN CUF1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL VACUOLE; CMT1 GENE; CMT2 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULON;

ANIMALS; COPPER; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, FUNGAL; MICE; REGULON; VIRULENCE;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 80052739845     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07794.x     Document Type: Article

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