Oxidative stress responses in the human fungal pathogen, Candida albicans

Biomolecules

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 142-165

  Dantas, Alessandra Da Silva ^a   Day, Alison ^b   Ikeh, Mélanie ^b   Kos, Iaroslava ^b   Achan, Beatrice ^b   Quinn, Janet ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Fungal pathogenesis; Oxidative stress; Stress signaling

Indexed keywords

CAP1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CHECKPOINT KINASE 2; HOG1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL SURVIVAL; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA DAMAGE CHECKPOINT; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84989328257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2218273X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/biom5010142     Document Type: Review

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