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N-Acetylglucosamine Induces White to Opaque Switching, a Mating Prerequisite in Candida albicans
To mate, the fungal pathogen Candida albicans must undergo homozygosis at the mating-type locus and then switch from the white to opaque phenotype. Paradoxically, opaque cells were found to be unstable at physiological temperature, suggesting that mating had little chance of occurring in the host, t...
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| Formato: | Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2010
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2837409/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300604 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000806 |