Deletion of the Candida albicans PIR32 Results in Increased Virulence, Stress Response, and Upregulation of Cell Wall Chitin Deposition

Candida albicans is a common opportunistic pathogen that causes a wide variety of diseases in a human immunocompromised host leading to death. In a pathogen, cell wall proteins are important for stability as well as for acting as antigenic determinants and virulence factors. Pir32 is a cell wall pro...

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Main Author: Bahnan, Wael (author)
Other Authors: Koussa, Joseph (author), Younes, Samer (author), Abi Rizk, Marybel (author), Khalil, Bassem (author), El Sitt, Sally (author), Hanna, Samer (author), El-Sibai, Mirvat (author), Khalaf, Roy A. (author)
Format: article
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/3360
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11046-012-9533-z
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11046-012-9533-z
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