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Candida albicans VPS4 contributes differentially to epithelial and mucosal pathogenesis.
Virulence - 1 Jan 2014
Rane Hallie S, Hardison Sarah, Botelho Claudia, Bernardo Stella M, Wormley Floyd, Lee Samuel A
Abstract excerpt
We have previously demonstrated that the C. albicans pre-vacuolar protein sorting gene VPS4 is required for extracellular secretion of the secreted aspartyl proteases Sap2p and Saps4-6p. Furthermore, the vps4Δ null mutant has been shown to be markedly hypovirulent in a murine tail vein model of disseminated candidiasis. In these experiments, we sought to further define the role of the pre-vacuolar secretion...
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