The transcription factor Flo8 mediates CO2 sensing in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 2692-2701

  Du, Han ^a   Guan, Guobo ^a   Xie, Jing ^a,b   Cottier, Fabien ^c   Sun, Yuan ^a   Jia, Wei ^a   Mühlschlegel, Fritz A ^c,d   Huang, Guanghua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^d EAST KENT HOSPITALS UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FLO8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SWITCHING; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

EID: 84863958104     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: 19394586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E12-02-0094     Document Type: Article

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