Functional characterization of the regulators of calcineurin in Candida glabrata

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 621-630

  Miyazaki, Taiga ^a   Izumikawa, Koichi ^a   Nagayoshi, Yohsuke ^a   Saijo, Tomomi ^a   Yamauchi, Shunsuke ^a   Morinaga, Yoshitomo ^a   Seki, Masafumi ^a   Kakeya, Hiroshi ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshihiro ^a   Yanagihara, Katsunori ^a   Miyazaki, Yoshitsugu ^b   Kohno, Shigeru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antifungal resistance; Crz1; Rcn1; Rcn2

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; PROTEIN RCN1; PROTEIN RCN2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CELL GROWTH; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CALCINEURIN; CANDIDA GLABRATA; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; ECHINOCANDINS; FLUCONAZOLE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIPOPEPTIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TUNICAMYCIN;

CANDIDA GLABRATA; FUNGI;

EID: 80054977155     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2011.00751.x     Document Type: Article

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