Vacuolar trafficking and Candida albicans pathogenesis

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 240-242

  Palmer, Glen E ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ap 3; Candida albicans; Endosome; Golgi; Hyphal growth; Pathogenesis; Trafficking; Ume6; Vacuole; Vps21

Indexed keywords

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

EID: 80155153023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.4.2.14717     Document Type: Article

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