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PDR16-mediated azole resistance in Candida albicans.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Jun 2006
Saidane Saloua, Weber Sandra, De Deken Xavier, St-Germain Guy, Raymond Martine
Abstract excerpt
Many Candida albicans azole-resistant (AR) clinical isolates overexpress the CDR1 and CDR2 genes encoding homologous multidrug transporters of the ATP-binding cassette family. We show here that these strains also overexpress the PDR16 gene, the orthologue of Saccharomyces cerevisiae PDR16 encoding a phosphatidylinositol transfer protein of the Sec14p family. It has been reported that S. cerevisiae pdr16Delta...
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