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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: Huang, Guanghua, Yi, Song, Sahni, Nidhi, Daniels, Karla J., Srikantha, Thyagarajan, Soll, David R.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2837409/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300604
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000806
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