Rsr1 focuses CDC42 activity at hyphal tips and promotes maintenance of hyphal development in Candida albicans

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 482-495

  Pulver, Rebecca ^a   Heisel, Timothy ^a   Gonia, Sara ^a   Robins, Robert ^a   Norton, Jennifer ^a,b   Haynes, Paula ^a   Gale, Cheryl A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEM1 PROTEIN, CANDIDA ALBICANS; BUD2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; BUD5 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; PROTEIN CDC42; RAB PROTEIN; RSR1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL CYCLE; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; CELL CYCLE; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HYPHAE; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84875539800     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00294-12     Document Type: Article

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