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Protein kinase A encoded by TPK2 regulates dimorphism of Candida albicans

  1. Anja Sonneborn1,
  2. Dirk P. Bockmühl1,
  3. Michaela Gerads1,
  4. Katharina Kurpanek1,
  5. Dominique Sanglard2,
  6. Joachim F. Ernst1

Article first published online: 1 MAR 2002

DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01705.x

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Molecular Microbiology

Molecular Microbiology

Volume 35, Issue 2, pages 386–396, January 2000

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Sonneborn, A., Bockmühl, D. P., Gerads, M., Kurpanek, K., Sanglard, D. and Ernst, J. F. (2000), Protein kinase A encoded by TPK2 regulates dimorphism of Candida albicans. Molecular Microbiology, 35: 386–396. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01705.x

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  1. 1

    Institut für Mikrobiologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstr. 1/Geb. 26.12, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.,

  2. 2

    Institut de Microbiologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.

* Joachim F. Ernst. E-mail joachim.ernst@uni-duesseldorf.de; Tel. (+49) 211 811 5176; Fax (+49) 211 811 5176.

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