Respiration supports intraphagosomal filamentation and escape of Candida albicans from macrophages.

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Candida albicans is a leading human fungal pathogen that often causes life-threatening infections in immunocompromised individuals. The ability of C. albicans to transition between yeast and filamentous forms is key to its virulence, and this occurs in response to many host-relevant cues, including engulfment by host macrophages. While previous efforts identified C. albicans genes required for filamentation in other conditions, the genes important for this morphological transition upon internalization by macrophages remained largely enigmatic. Here, we employed a functional genomic approach to identify genes that enable C. albicans filamentation within macrophages and uncovered a role for the mitochondrial ribosome, respiration, and the SNF1 A

SUBMITTER: Case NT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10746240 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature