Amino acid transporter genes are essential for FLO11-dependent and FLO11-independent biofilm formation and invasive growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Torbensen, Rasmus ^a   Møller, Henrik Devitt ^a   Gresham, David ^b   Alizadeh, Sefa ^a   Ochmann, Doreen ^c   Boles, Eckhard ^c   Regenberg, Birgitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; COMPLEX FORMATION; DIP5 GENE; FLO1 GENE; FLO10 GENE; FLO11 GENE; FLO5 GENE; FLO9 GENE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GAP1 GENE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GNP1 GENE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CARLSBERGENSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; AMINO ACIDS; BIOFILMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MUTATION; NITROGEN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 84864383708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041272     Document Type: Article

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