Maria E. Cardenas

Research.com Recognitions

• 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Best Publications

• The TOR signaling cascade regulates gene expression in response to nutrients

  Maria E. Cardenas;N. Shane Cutler;Michael C. Lorenz;Charles J. Di Como

  734
  Citations

• Sensing the environment: lessons from fungi

  Yong Sun Bahn;Chaoyang Xue;Alexander Idnurm;Julian C. Rutherford

  488
  Citations

• The TOR kinases link nutrient sensing to cell growth.

  John Rohde;Joseph Heitman;Maria E. Cardenas

  453
  Citations

• Calcineurin is essential for survival during membrane stress in Candida albicans

  M.Cristina Cruz;Alan L. Goldstein;Jill R. Blankenship;Maurizio Del Poeta

  397
  Citations

• All cyclophilins and FK506 binding proteins are, individually and collectively, dispensable for viability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  Kara Dolinski;Scott Muir;Maria Cardenas;Joseph Heitman

  383
  Citations

• Localization of RAP1 and topoisomerase II in nuclei and meiotic chromosomes of yeast.

  F. Klein;T. Laroche;M. E. Cardenas;J. F.-X. Hofmann

  344
  Citations

• The G protein-coupled receptor gpr1 is a nutrient sensor that regulates pseudohyphal differentiation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

  Michael C. Lorenz;Xuewen Pan;Toshiaki Harashima;Maria E. Cardenas

  338
  Citations

• Studies on Scaffold Attachment Sites and Their Relation to Genome Function

  S.M. Gasser;B.B. Amati;M.E. Cardenas;J.F.-X. Hofmann

  276
  Citations

• Synergistic Antifungal Activities of Bafilomycin A1, Fluconazole, and the Pneumocandin MK-0991/Caspofungin Acetate (L-743,873) with Calcineurin Inhibitors FK506 and L-685,818 against Cryptococcus neoformans

  M Del Poeta;M C Cruz;M E Cardenas;J R Perfect

  255
  Citations

• Calcineurin regulatory subunit is essential for virulence and mediates interactions with FKBP12–FK506 in Cryptococcus neoformans

  Deborah S. Fox;M. Cristina Cruz;Rey A. L. Sia;Hengming Ke

  231
  Citations

• Immunophilins interact with calcineurin in the absence of exogenous immunosuppressive ligands.

  M E Cardenas;C Hemenway;R S Muir;R Ye

  229
  Citations

• The TOR signal transduction cascade controls cellular differentiation in response to nutrients.

  N. Shane Cutler;Xuewen Pan;Joseph Heitman;Maria E. Cardenas

  227
  Citations

• Rapamycin antifungal action is mediated via conserved complexes with FKBP12 and TOR kinase homologs in Cryptococcus neoformans.

  M. Cristina Cruz;Lora M. Cavallo;Jenifer M. Görlach;Gary Cox

  224
  Citations

• Casein kinase II phosphorylates the eukaryote-specific C-terminal domain of topoisomerase II in vivo.

  M. E. Cardenas;Qi Dang;C. V. C. Glover;S. M. Gasser

  224
  Citations

• The tor pathway regulates gene expression by linking nutrient sensing to histone acetylation.

  John R. Rohde;Maria E. Cardenas

  217
  Citations

• The Ess1 prolyl isomerase is linked to chromatin remodeling complexes and the general transcription machinery

  Xiaoyun Wu;Cathy B. Wilcox;Gina Devasahayam;Robin L. Hackett

  208
  Citations

• The protein kinase Tor1 regulates adhesin gene expression in Candida albicans.

  Robert J. Bastidas;Joseph Heitman;Maria E. Cardenas

  189
  Citations

• Immunosuppressive and Nonimmunosuppressive Cyclosporine Analogs Are Toxic to the Opportunistic Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans via Cyclophilin-Dependent Inhibition of Calcineurin

  M. C. Cruz;M. Del Poeta;Ping Wang;R. Wenger

  185
  Citations

• Rapamycin and less immunosuppressive analogs are toxic to Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans via FKBP12-dependent inhibition of TOR.

  M. Cristina Cruz;Alan L. Goldstein;Jill Blankenship;Maurizio Del Poeta

  180
  Citations

• Tor and cyclic AMP-protein kinase A: two parallel pathways regulating expression of genes required for cell growth.

  Sara A. Zurita-Martinez;Maria E. Cardenas

  171
  Citations