Roles of the Transcription Factors Sfl2 and Efg1 in White-Opaque Switching in a/α Strains of <named-content content-type="genus-species">Candida albicans</named-content>

ABSTRACT Candida albicans remains the most pervasive fungal pathogen colonizing humans. The majority of isolates from hosts are heterozygous at the mating type locus (MTLa/α), and a third of these have recently been shown to be capable of switching to the opaque phenotype. Here we have investigated...

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Main Authors: Yang-Nim Park, Kayla Conway, Thomas P. Conway, Karla J. Daniels, David R. Soll
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-04-01
Series:mSphere
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00703-18