The roles of zinc and copper sensing in fungal pathogenesis

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue , 2016, Pages 128-134

  Ballou, Elizabeth R ^a   Wilson, Duncan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; TRACE ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; ZAP1 PROTEIN; ZINC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; CANDIDA; EVOLUTION; FILOBASIDIELLA; FUNGAL PATHOGENESIS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; HOMEOSTASIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOREGULATION; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULON; REVIEW; ZAP1; ZINC HOMEOSTASIS; ANIMAL; CANDIDIASIS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; COPPER; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE FACTORS; ZINC;

EID: 84974686986     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2016.05.013     Document Type: Review

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