Conserved and divergent roles of Bcr1 and CFEM proteins in Candida parapsilosis and Candida albicans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Ding, Chen ^a   Vidanes, Genevieve M ^a   Maguire, Sarah L ^a   Guida, Alessandro ^a   Synnott, John M ^a   Andes, David R ^b   Butler, Geraldine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILM AND CELL WALL REGULATOR 1 PROTEIN; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; COMMON IN FUNGAL EXTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE PROTEIN; CSA1 PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HEMOPROTEIN; IRON; PGA7 PROTEIN; RBT5 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CATHETER INFECTION; CFEM1 GENE; CFEM2 GENE; CFEM3 GENE; CFEM4 GENE; CFEM6 GENE; CFEM7 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEME SYNTHESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPECIES COMPARISON; ANIMAL; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IRON; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RATS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 82455174370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028151     Document Type: Article

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