Laccase

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Antisense repression in Cryptococcus neoformans as a laboratory tool and potential antifungal strategy. 
  • Comparative gene genealogical analyses of strains of serotype AD identify recombination in populations of serotypes A and D in the human pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Coordination environment for the type 3 copper center of tree laccase and CuB of cytochrome c oxidase as determined by electron nuclear double resonance. 
  • Cryptococcus neoformans virulence gene discovery through insertional mutagenesis. 
  • Cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunits have divergent roles in virulence factor production in two varieties of the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Distinct stress responses of two functional laccases in Cryptococcus neoformans are revealed in the absence of the thiol-specific antioxidant Tsa1. 
  • Effect of the laccase gene CNLAC1, on virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Killing of Caenorhabditis elegans by Cryptococcus neoformans as a model of yeast pathogenesis. 
  • Multiple origins of hybrid strains of Cryptococcus neoformans with serotype AD. 
  • Novel gene functions required for melanization of the human pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Transcriptional network of multiple capsule and melanin genes governed by the Cryptococcus neoformans cyclic AMP cascade.