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SUBMITTER: Tan X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3986095 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tan Xiaojiang X Fuchs Beth Burgwyn BB Wang Yan Y Chen Weiping W Yuen Grace J GJ Chen Rosalyn B RB Jayamani Elamparithi E Anastassopoulou Cleo C Pukkila-Worley Read R Coleman Jeffrey J JJ Mylonakis Eleftherios E
PloS one 20140414 4
Candida albicans is a ubiquitous fungus, which can cause very serious and sometimes life-threatening infections in susceptible patients. We used Caenorhabditis elegans as a model host to screen a library of C. albicans mutants for decreased virulence and identified SPT20 as important for virulence. The transcription co-activator SPT20 was identified originally as a suppressor of Ty and solo δ insertion mutations, which can cause transcription defects in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. It is resistant ...[more]