Quorum sensing in fungi a review

Medical Mycology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 337-345

  Albuquerque, Patrícia ^a,b   Casadevall, Arturo ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aromatic alcohols; Candida albicans; Farnesol; Pathogenic fungi; Quorum sensing; Tyrosol

Indexed keywords

DIACYLGLYCEROL; FARNESOL; PHENETHYL ALCOHOL; PROTEIN KINASE C; TRYPTOPHOL; TYROSOL;

ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; APOPTOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BIOFILM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL DENSITY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; GROWTH INHIBITION; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; MORPHOGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; POPULATION DENSITY DEPENDENCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; QUORUM SENSING;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84859742950     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693786.2011.652201     Document Type: Review

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