Protein Profiling of the Dimorphic Pathogenic Fungus, Sporothrix schenckii

Mycopathologia

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-11

  Zhang, Zhenying ^a   Hou, Binbin ^a   Xin, Yi ^a   Liu, Xiaoming ^a  

^a DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

2DE; Dimorphism; DRK1 histidine kinase; Protein profile; Sporothrix schenckii

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN-HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEOME;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SPOROTHRIX; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEOME; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPOROTHRIX;

AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; AJELLOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; FUNGI; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII;

EID: 82355185860     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-011-9456-0     Document Type: Article

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