White-Opaque Switching in Natural MTLa/α Isolates of Candida albicans: Evolutionary Implications for Roles in Host Adaptation, Pathogenesis, and Sex

PLoS Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Xie, Jing ^a,b   Tao, Li ^a   Nobile, Clarissa J ^c   Tong, Yaojun ^a,b   Guan, Guobo ^a   Sun, Yuan ^a   Cao, Chengjun ^a   Hernday, Aaron D ^c   Johnson, Alexander D ^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 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRG1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EFG1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RFG1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CARBON SOURCE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; FUNGAL REPRODUCTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; INCUBATION TIME; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MATING TYPE; MATING TYPE LOCUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPAQUE CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WHITE OPAQUE SWITCHING; WOR1 GENE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

EID: 84875445030     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001525     Document Type: Article

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