The ER stress response and host temperature adaptation in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

Virulence

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 351-356

  Glazier, Virginia E ^a   Panepinto, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus neoformans; ER stress response; Host temperature adaptation; Posttranscriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HAC1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HXL1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; X BOX BINDING PROTEIN 1;

CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM ASSOCIATED DEGRADATION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; FUNGAL GENE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE;

CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ER STRESS RESPONSE; HOST TEMPERATURE ADAPTATION; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HUMANS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE;

EID: 84897895013     PISSN: 21505594     EISSN: 21505608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/viru.27187     Document Type: Review

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