Role of a Candida albicans Nrm1/Whi5 homologue in cell cycle gene expression and DNA replication stress response

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 778-794

  Ofir, Ayala ^a   Hofmann, Kay ^b   Weindling, Esther ^a   Gildor, Tsvia ^a   Barker, Katherine S ^c   Rogers, P David ^c   Kornitzer, Daniel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYUREA; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DELETION MUTANT; DNA REPLICATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NRM1 GENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WHI5 GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DNA REPLICATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, CDC; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84860553198     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08056.x     Document Type: Article

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