Pleiotropic effects of deubiquitinating enzyme Ubp5 on growth and pathogenesis of Cryptococcus neoformans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Fang, Wei ^a,b   Price, Michael S ^b   Toffaletti, Dena L ^b   Tenor, Jennifer ^b   Betancourt Quiroz, Marisol ^b   Price, Jennifer L ^b,c   Pan, Wei hua ^a   Liao, Wan qing ^a   Perfect, John R ^b  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Beckman Coulter Genomics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; DEUBIQUITINATING ENZYME; LIGASE; MELANIN; UBP5 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DEUBIQUITINATION; FUNGAL CAPSULE; FUNGAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; FUNGAL REPRODUCTION; FUNGAL SPORE GERMINATION; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; NITROSATIVE STRESS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLEIOTROPY; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SALT STRESS; TEMPERATURE STRESS;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENE DELETION; MACROPHAGES; MICE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; TRANSCRIPTOME; UREASE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84862265526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038326     Document Type: Article

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