Structure of the transcriptional network controlling white-opaque switching in Candida albicans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 22-35

  Hernday, Aaron D ^a,c   Lohse, Matthew B ^a   Fordyce, Polly M ^a,b   Nobile, Clarissa J ^a   Derisi, Joseph L ^a,b   Johnson, Alexander D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Amyris   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN AHR1; PROTEIN CZF1; PROTEIN EFG1; PROTEIN WOR1; PROTEIN WOR2; PROTEIN WOR3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA, FUNGAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING;

EID: 84884701244     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12329     Document Type: Article

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