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Heterogeneous Expression of the Virulence-Related Adhesin Epa1 between Individual Cells and Strains of the Pathogen Candida glabrata
3 Dec 2011
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the relevance of gene expression heterogeneity to virulence properties of a major fungal pathogen, Candida glabrata. The organism's key virulence-associated factors include glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored adhesins, encoded subtelomerically by the EPA gene family. Individual-cell analyses of expression revealed very striking heterogeneity for Epa1, an adhesin that mediates ∼95% of adherence...
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