Structural basis for the broad specificity to host-cell ligands by the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans

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

Volumn 108, Issue 38, 2011, Pages 15775-15779

  Salgado, Paula S ^a   Yan, Robert ^a,c   Taylor, Jonathan D ^a   Burchell, Lynn ^a,d   Jones, Rhian ^a   Hoyer, Lois L ^b   Matthews, Steve J ^a   Simpson, Peter J ^a   Cota, Ernesto ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Microbial adhesion; NMR; Tissue tropism; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; AGGLUTININ LIKE SEQUENCE GLYCOPROTEIN; AMYLOID; BINDING PROTEIN; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; LIGAND; LYSINE; N TERMINAL AGGLUTININ LIKE SEQUENCE ADHESIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; WATER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HOST CELL; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CROSS INFECTION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

EID: 80053165245     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1103496108     Document Type: Article

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