Functional importance of the DNA binding activity of Candida albicans Czf1p

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Petrovska, Ivana ^a   Kumamoto, Carol A ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EFG1P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CZF1P GENE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 84862996235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039624     Document Type: Article

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