The C2 domain protein Cts1 functions in the calcineurin signaling circuit during high-temperature stress responses in Cryptococcus neoformans

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1714-1723

  Aboobakar, Eanas F ^a   Wang, Xuying ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a   Kozubowski, Lukasz ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; TACROLIMUS;

ARTICLE; CELL GRANULE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYTOKINESIS; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOSOME; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CALCINEURIN; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOSOMES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYPHAE; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TACROLIMUS;

EID: 82555161639     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.05148-11     Document Type: Article

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