Isolation and characterization of yeast monomorphic mutants of Candida albicans.

doi:10.1128/jb.176.8.2318-2325.1994

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Isolation and characterization of yeast monomorphic mutants of Candida albicans.

Journal of bacteriology - 1 Apr 1994

Elorza M V, Sentandreu R, Ruiz-Herrera J

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A method was devised for the isolation of yeast monomorphic (LEV) mutants of Candida albicans. By this procedure, about 20 stable yeast-like mutants were isolated after mutagenesis with ethyl methane sulfonate. The growth rate of the mutants in different carbon sources, both fermentable and not,...

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Candida albicans
Cell Wall
Mutation

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