Gene expression in human fungal pathogen Coccidioides immitis changes as arthroconidia differentiate into spherules and mature

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Viriyakosol, Suganya ^a   Singhania, Akul ^b   Fierer, Joshua ^a,b,c   Goldberg, Jonathan ^d   Kirkland, Theo N ^a,b,c   Woelk, Christopher H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Coccidioides; Fungus; Gene expression; Mycelia; Spherules; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYPHENYLPYRUVATE DIOXYGENASE; AMYLASE; GLUCAN SYNTHASE; NITISINONE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SULFUR; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPLASMA; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; COCCIDIOIDES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; MICE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AJELLOMYCES; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; SPHERULES;

EID: 84878234270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-13-121     Document Type: Article

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