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Farnesol restores wild-type colony morphology to 96% of Candida albicans colony morphology variants recovered following treatment with mutagens.
Genome - 1 Apr 2006
Jensen Ellen C, Hornby Jacob M, Pagliaccetti Nicole E, Wolter Chuleeon M, Nickerson Kenneth W, Atkin Audrey L
Abstract excerpt
Candida albicans is a diploid fungus that undergoes a morphological transition between budding yeast, hyphal, and pseudohyphal forms. The morphological transition is strongly correlated with virulence and is regulated in part by quorum sensing. Candida albicans produces and secretes farnesol that regulates the yeast to mycelia morphological transition. Mutants that fail to synthesize or respond to farnesol could...
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