Pathogenic Yeasts Deploy Cell Surface Receptors to Acquire Iron in Vertebrate Hosts

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Kronstad, James W ^a   Cadieux, Brigitte ^a   Jung, Won Hee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; FERRITIN; HEME; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; TRANSFERRIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HOST; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; VERTEBRATE; YEAST; ANIMAL; CANDIDIASIS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; IRON; MEMBRANE PROTEINS;

EID: 84883374209     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003498     Document Type: Article

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