Target specificity of the Candida albicans Efg1 regulator

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 602-618

  Lassak, Theresia ^a   Schneider, Eva ^a   Bussmann, Michael ^a   Kurtz, Dagmar ^a   Manak, J Robert ^b,c   Srikantha, Thyagarajan ^b   Soll, David R ^b   Ernst, Joachim F ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE A TPK2 ISOFORM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CZF1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DEF1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EFG1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRG1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TCC1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TEC1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DOWN REGULATION; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOOTPRINTING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING;

BINDING SITES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 80054833808     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07837.x     Document Type: Article

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