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Candida albicans VPS11 is required for vacuole biogenesis and germ tube formation.
Eukaryotic cell - 1 Jun 2003
Palmer Glen E, Cashmore Annette, Sturtevant Joy
Abstract excerpt
The Candida albicans vacuole has previously been observed to undergo rapid expansion during the emergence of a germ tube from a yeast cell, to occupy the majority of the parent yeast cell. Furthermore, the yeast-to-hypha switch has been implicated in the virulence of this organism. The class C vps (vacuolar protein sorting) mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are defective in multiple protein delivery pathways to...
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