Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Candida albicans cells comparing control untreated C. albicans cells with sulfite-treated C. albicans cells. Sulfite is a toxic molecule that C. albicans encounters in its human host. Both wild type and ∆zcf2 mutant cells were used. The goal was to determine the effects of sulfite on C. albicans gene expression, and to determine which of the genes areZcf2-depedent.
Project description:Investigation of whole genome gene expression level changes in Candida albicans WO-1 grown aerobically in xylose, compared to the same strain grown aerobically in glucose. A six array study using total RNA recovered from three separate cultures of Candida albicans WO-1 grown in glucose and three separate cultures of Candida albicans WO-1 grown in xylose. Each array measures the expression level of 373,067 probes (average probe length 55.2 +/- 4.0 nt) tiled across the Candida albicans WO-1 genome with a median spacing distance of 31 nt. During data processing, probes are filtered to include only those probes corresponding to annotated protein-coding genes.
Project description:The fungal pathogen Candida albicans produces dark-pigmented melanin when grown in a basal medium containing 1 mM l-DOPA as melanin substrate. In the widely used C. albicans strain SC5314, melanin appeared after 3-4 days of incubation in l-DOPA medium. The experiment was designed to reveal cadidate genes associated with melanin biosynthesis by expression profiling at different times of growth with and without L-DOPA added to the medium. Expression profiling of C. albicans revealed very few genes significantly up- or down-regulated by growth in l-DOPA.
Project description:The opportunistic human pathogens, Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis, are closely related species displaying large differences in virulence, but the reasons for these differences are elusive. Microarray-based comparative analysis of global gene expression in the two species incubated on reconstituted human oral epithelium (RHE) was used to identify specific and common changes in gene expression and find novel C. albicans virulence genes
