A Novel Role for the Transcription Factor Cwt1p as a Negative Regulator of Nitrosative Stress in Candida albicans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Sellam, Adnane ^a   Tebbji, Faiza ^b,c   Whiteway, Malcolm ^b,c   Nantel, André ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CWT1P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST CELL; NITROSATIVE STRESS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; REGULON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; OXYGENASES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84865611209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043956     Document Type: Article

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