Targets of the Sex Inducer homeodomain proteins are required for fungal development and virulence in Cryptococcus neoformans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 804-818

  Mead, Matthew E ^a   Stanton, Brynne C ^a,b   Kruzel, Emilia K ^a,c   Hull, Christina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b The Innovation and Design Building   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN SXI1ALPHA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN SXI2ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84923876035     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12898     Document Type: Article

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