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Unequal contribution of ALS9 alleles to adhesion between Candida albicans and human vascular endothelial cells.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Jul 2007
Zhao Xiaomin, Oh Soon-Hwan, Hoyer Lois L
Abstract excerpt
The Candida albicans ALS (agglutinin-like sequence) family includes eight genes (ALS1 to ALS7, and ALS9) that share a common general organization, consisting of a relatively conserved 5' domain, a central domain of tandemly repeated sequence units, and a 3' domain of relatively variable length and sequence. To test the hypothesis that the cell-surface glycoproteins encoded by the ALS genes mediate contact between...
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