N-acetylglucosamine induces white-to-opaque switching and mating in Candida tropicalis, providing new insights into adaptation and fungal sexual evolution

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 773-782

  Xie, Jing ^a,b   Du, Han ^a   Guan, Guobo ^a   Tong, Yaojun ^a,b   Kourkoumpetis, Themistoklis K ^c   Zhang, Lixin ^a   Bai, Feng Yan ^a   Huang, Guanghua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; REGULATOR GENE; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENES, SWITCH; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; FUNGI;

EID: 84861682644     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00047-12     Document Type: Article

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