Quantitative proteomics and metabolomics approaches to demonstrate N-acetyl-d-glucosamine inducible amino acid deprivation response as morphological switch in Candida albicans

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 369-378

  Kamthan, Mohan ^a,b   Mukhopadhyay, Gauranga ^b   Chakraborty, Niranjan ^a   Chakraborty, Subhra ^a   Datta, Asis ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENOME RESEARCH   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Candida; GCN response; GlcNAc; Leloir pathway; Morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; INITIATION FACTOR 2ALPHA; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; GCN2 GENE; GCN4 GENE; GENE INACTIVATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOMICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; AMINO ACIDS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HUMANS; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 84860378125     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2012.02.006     Document Type: Article

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