Candida albicans scavenges host zinc via Pra1 during endothelial invasion

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Citiulo, Francesco ^a   Jacobsen, Ilse D ^a   Miramón, Pedro ^a   Schild, Lydia ^a   Brunke, Sascha ^a,b   Zipfel, Peter ^a,c   Brock, Matthias ^a   Hube, Bernhard ^a,b,c   Wilson, Duncan ^a  

^a HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS ANTIGEN; PH REGULATED ANTIGEN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC; ZINC TRANSPORTER; ZRT1 TRANSPORTER; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PRA1 PROTEIN, CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; ZRT1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BASIDIOMYCETES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; ENDOTHELIUM INJURY; PHYLOGENY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CANDIDIASIS; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; UMBILICAL VEIN; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; PROKARYOTA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; UMBILICAL VEINS; ZINC;

EID: 84864058208     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002777     Document Type: Article

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