Calcineurin orchestrates dimorphic transitions, antifungal drug responses and host-pathogen interactions of the pathogenic mucoralean fungus Mucor circinelloides

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 844-865

  Lee, Soo Chan ^a   Li, Alicia ^a   Calo, Silvia ^a   Inoue, Makoto ^a   Tonthat, Nam K ^a   Bain, Judith M ^b   Louw, Johanna ^b   Shinohara, Mari L ^a   Erwig, Lars P ^b,c   Schumacher, Maria A ^a   Ko, Dennis C ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CALCINEURIN; CALCINEURIN A; CALCINEURIN A CATALYTIC SUBUNIT CNAA; CALCINEURIN A CATALYTIC SUBUNIT CNAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CYTOKINE; ECHINOCANDIN; LIPOPEPTIDE; MICAFUNGIN; TACROLIMUS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FUNGAL SPORE GERMINATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MACROPHAGE; MICROSCOPY; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES; MUCORMYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG POTENTIATION; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LARVA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOTH; MOUSE; MUCOR; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRULENCE;

FUNGI; MUCOR; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES; MUCORALES;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CALCINEURIN; CALCINEURIN INHIBITORS; CELL LINE; CYTOKINES; DRUG SYNERGISM; ECHINOCANDINS; GENE DELETION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HYPHAE; LARVA; LIPOPEPTIDES; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOTHS; MUCOR; MUTATION; PHAGOSOMES; SPORES, FUNGAL; TACROLIMUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84940467408     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13071     Document Type: Article

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