Function and regulation of Cph2 in Candida albicans

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1114-1126

  Lane, Shelley ^a   Di Lena, Pietro ^a,b,c   Tormanen, Kati ^a   Baldi, Pierre ^a,b   Liua, Haoping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Irvine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CPH2 PROTEIN, CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84945316717     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00102-15     Document Type: Article

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