A Relay Network of Extracellular Heme-Binding Proteins Drives C. albicans Iron Acquisition from Hemoglobin

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Kuznets, Galit ^a   Vigonsky, Elena ^a   Weissman, Ziva ^a   Lalli, Daniela ^b   Gildor, Tsvia ^a   Kauffman, Sarah J ^c   Turano, Paola ^b   Becker, Jeffrey ^c   Lewinson, Oded ^a   Kornitzer, Daniel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; EXTRACELLULAR HEME BINDING PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; HEMIN; HEMOGLOBIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARRIER PROTEIN; HEME; HEME-BINDING PROTEIN; HEMOPROTEIN; IRON;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL CELL CULTURE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HEME IRON UTILIZATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IRON METABOLISM; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PATHOGENICITY; PGA7 GENE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RBT5 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; CELL WALL; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL WALL; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; HEME; HEMEPROTEINS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IRON; MICE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84908345440     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004407     Document Type: Article

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