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N-acetylglucosamine induces white to opaque switching, a mating prerequisite in Candida albicans.

To mate, the fungal pathogen Candida albicans must undergo homozygosis at the mating-type locus and then switch from the white to opaque phenotype. Paradoxically, opaque cells were found to be unstable at physiological temperature, suggesting that mating had little chance of occurring in the host, t...

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Main Authors: Guanghua Huang, Song Yi, Nidhi Sahni, Karla J Daniels, Thyagarajan Srikantha, David R Soll
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-03-01
Serier:PLoS Pathogens
Online adgang:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2837409?pdf=render
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