Bcr1 plays a central role in the regulation of opaque cell filamentation in Candida albicans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 732-750

  Guan, Guobo ^a   Xie, Jing ^a,b   Tao, Li ^a   Nobile, Clarissa J ^c   Sun, Yuan ^a   Cao, Chengjun ^a   Tong, Yaojun ^a   Huang, Guanghua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCR1 PROTEIN; CUP9 PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP; CZF1 PROTEIN; EFG1 PROTEIN; FLO8 PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; NRG1 PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BCR1 GENE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUP9 GENE; CZF1 GENE; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE DELETION; GENE INACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NRG1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CYCLIC AMP; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84881554462     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12310     Document Type: Article

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