White Cells Facilitate Opposite- and Same-Sex Mating of Opaque Cells in Candida albicans

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Tao, Li ^a   Cao, Chengjun ^a,b   Liang, Weihong ^a,b   Guan, Guobo ^a   Zhang, Qiuyu ^a,b   Nobile, Clarissa J ^c   Huang, Guanghua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA PHEROMONE; PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CPH1 PROTEIN, CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPH1 GENE; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HST7 GENE; MATING; MFALPHA1 GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPAQUE ALPHA CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; SKIN INFECTION; STE11 GENE; STE2 GENE; WHITE ALPHA CELL; ANIMAL; CANDIDIASIS; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DISEASE MODEL; FUNGAL MATING TYPE GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DERMATOMYCOSES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MICE, INBRED ICR; PHEROMONES; REPRODUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84908325179     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004737     Document Type: Article

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