Chromatin-mediated Candida albicans virulence

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1819, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 349-355

  Lopes da Rosa, Jessica ^a   Kaufman, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Chromatin modification; DNA damage; Fungal pathogen; Histone H3 lysine 56; Rtt109

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CASPOFUNGIN; CHAPERONE; ERGOSTEROL; FLUCONAZOLE; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GCN5 ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; ITRACONAZOLE; LYSINE; MICAFUNGIN; PROTEIN SWI; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RTT109 PROTEIN; SET1 METHYLTRANSFERASE; SUPEROXIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SAGA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNF; TRICHOSTATIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DRUG TARGETING; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HUMAN; MEDIATOR; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CHROMATIN; DNA REPAIR; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

EID: 84857107952     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2011.08.007     Document Type: Article

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