Calcium signaling components in the human pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 186-187

  Kmetzsch, Livia ^a   Staats, Charley Christian ^a   Rodrigues, Marcio L ^b   Schrank, Augusto ^a   Vainstein, Marilene Henning ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Calcineurin; Calcium; Calcium transport; Cryptococcus neoformans; Virulence

Indexed keywords

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 80155210140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.4.2.14271     Document Type: Article

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