Post-Transcriptional Regulation of the Sef1 Transcription Factor Controls the Virulence of Candida albicans in Its Mammalian Host

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Changbin ^a   Noble, Suzanne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEF1 PROTEIN; SFU PROTEIN; SSN3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA 1 SUBUNIT; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HUMANS; IRON; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84870829263     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002956     Document Type: Article

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