High-frequency phenotypic switching in Candida albicans.

doi:10.1016/0168-9525(93)90189-O

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High-frequency phenotypic switching in Candida albicans.

Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Feb 1993

Soll D R, Morrow B, Srikantha T

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Most strains of Candida albicans are capable of switching spontaneously and at high frequencies between a number of phenotypes distinguished by colony morphology. Unlike switching in many other microbial pathogens, switching in C. albicans is pleiotropic, affecting several morphological and physi...

Topics

Antigenic Variation
Antigens, Fungal
Candida albicans
Fungal Proteins
Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal
Phenotype
Transcription, Genetic
Virulence

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