Variation in Candida albicans EFG1 expression enables host-dependent changes in colonizing fungal populations

mBio

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Pierce, Jessica V ^a,b   Kumamoto, Carol A ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EFG1P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EFG1 PROTEIN, CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CELL HETEROGENEITY; EFG GENE; FEMALE; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL GENE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE STATUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; MURINAE; MUS;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84865790513     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00117-12     Document Type: Article

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