Histoplasma yeast and mycelial transcriptomes reveal pathogenic-phase and lineage-specific gene expression profiles

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Edwards, Jessica A ^a   Chen, Chenxi ^a   Kemski, Megan M ^a   Hu, Jinnan ^a   Mitchell, Thomas K ^a   Rappleye, Chad A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimorphism; Fungal pathogenesis; Histoplasma; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; MESSENGER RNA; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOPLASMA; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; YEAST; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AJELLOMYCES; AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HISTOPLASMA; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCELIUM; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84885094068     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-695     Document Type: Article

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