Reduced TOR signaling sustains hyphal development in Candida albicans by lowering Hog1 basal activity

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 385-397

  Su, Chang ^a   Lu, Yang ^a   Liu, Haoping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRG1 PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLYCEROL; HIGH OSMOLARITY GLYCEROL 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN PBS2; PROTEIN PTP2; PROTEIN PTP3; PROTEIN SSK2; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENETIC SCREENING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; ENZYME INDUCTION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIROLIMUS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84873328069     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: 19394586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E12-06-0477     Document Type: Article

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