A GATA transcription factor recruits Hda1 in response to reduced Tor1 signaling to establish a hyphal chromatin state in Candida albicans

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Lu, Yang ^a   Su, Chang ^a   Liu, Haoping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRG1 PROTEIN; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 1; NRG1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RAPAMYCIN; TOR1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA; UME6 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL ELONGATION; CELL FATE; CELL GROWTH; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YEAST CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HYPHAE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84861205961     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002663     Document Type: Article

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