Quorum sensing controls hyphal initiation in Candida albicans through Ubr1-mediated protein degradation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1975-1980

  Lu, Yang ^a   Su, Chang ^a   Unoje, Ohimai ^a   Liu, Haoping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FARNESOL; PROTEIN CUP9; PROTEIN NRG1; PROTEIN SOK1; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; UBR1PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COMMENSALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS MUTANT; INTESTINE FLORA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; QUORUM SENSING;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; FARNESOL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HYPHAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEOLYSIS; QUORUM SENSING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EID: 84893454260     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1318690111     Document Type: Article

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