The vacuolar-sorting protein Snf7 is required for export of virulence determinants in members of the Cryptococcus neoformans complex.

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Da C Godinho, Rodrigo M ^a   Crestani, Juliana ^b   Kmetzsch, Lívia ^b   De S Araujo, Glauber ^a,c   Frases, Susana ^a,c   Staats, Charley C ^b   Schrank, Augusto ^b   Vainstein, Marilene H ^b   Rodrigues, Marcio L ^a,d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE METROLOGIA   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCRT PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENDOSOMAL SORTING COMPLEXES REQUIRED FOR TRANSPORT; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84906861727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06198     Document Type: Article

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