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Systematic screens of a Candida albicans homozygous deletion library decouple morphogenetic switching and pathogenicity.
Nature genetics - 1 Jul 2010
Noble Suzanne M, French Sarah, Kohn Lisa A, Chen Victoria, Johnson Alexander D
Abstract excerpt
Candida albicans is the most common cause of serious fungal disease in humans. Creation of isogenic null mutants of this diploid organism, which requires sequential gene targeting, allows dissection of virulence mechanisms. Published analyses of such mutants show a near-perfect correlation between C. albicans pathogenicity and the ability to undergo a yeast-to-hypha morphological switch in vitro. However, most...
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