Factors required for activation of urease as a virulence determinant in Cryptococcus neoformans

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Singh, Arpita ^a   Panting, Robert J ^b,e   Varma, Ashok ^a   Saijo, Tomomi ^a   Waldron, Kevin J ^b   Jong, Ambrose ^c   Ngamskulrungroj, Popchai ^a,d   Chang, Yun C ^a   Rutherford, Julian C ^b   Kwon Chung, Kyung J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^e Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; NICKEL; NITROGEN; PROTEIN NIC1; PROTEIN URE4; PROTEIN URE6; PROTEIN URE7; PROTEIN URED; PROTEIN UREF; PROTEIN UREG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREASE; PROTEIN BINDING; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BRAIN INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; FEMALE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC LINKAGE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEOMICS; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; URE2 GENE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NICKEL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; UREASE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84879566277     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00220-13     Document Type: Article

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