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CO(2) regulates white-to-opaque switching in Candida albicans.
Current biology : CB - 24 Feb 2009
Huang Guanghua, Srikantha Thyagarajan, Sahni Nidhi, Yi Song, Soll David R
Abstract excerpt
To mate, Candida albicans must undergo homozygosis at the mating type-like locus MTL[1, 2], then switch from the white to opaque phenotype [3, 4]. Paradoxically, when opaque cells are transferred in vitro to 37 degrees C, the temperature of their animal host, they switch en masse to white [5-7],...
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