Metabolism in fungal pathogenesis

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Ene, Iuliana V ^a,e   Brunke, Sascha ^b   Brown, Alistair J P ^a   Hube, Bernhard ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; CARBON; IRON; NITROGEN; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PROTEINASE; TRACE ELEMENT; VIRULENCE FACTOR; ZINC;

ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BLOOD FLOW; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CARBON FIXATION; CARBON METABOLISM; COMMENSALISM; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE COURSE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IRON METABOLISM; METABOLISM; MUCOSA; MYCOSIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; ORGAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; ZINC METABOLISM; CANDIDIASIS; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MYCOSES;

CANDIDA GLABRATA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

CANDIDIASIS; CARBON; FUNGI; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IRON; MICRONUTRIENTS; MYCOSES; NITROGEN; VIRULENCE FACTORS; ZINC;

EID: 84919648541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21571422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a019695     Document Type: Article

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