… SXI1α establishes α cell identity and controls … cells is sufficient to drive a/α sexual development.
SXI1α is the first example of a key regulator of cell identity and sexual differentiation in C. …

… neoformans strains have the ability to initiate hyphal growth during a–α mating, and that
putting the α cell identity gene SXI1α in a haploid a cell or vice versa can initiate self-…

… Similar to other fungi, the cell-type identity of Cryptococcus is specified by pheromone and
receptor genes and homeodomain transcription factor genes within the MAT locus that serve …

… These congenic diploid strains can be transformed and used to studykey features of cell
identity and to establish that genes are essential(43,83). The filaments produced by …

… Of these, the MATα-specific homeodomain protein Sxi1αp was identified as necessary
and sufficient to designate α cell identity in a manner analogous to the mammalian sex …

… C. neoformans cells were added to the macrophage suspension at a density of 5 105 cells/ml
of culture medium with 10 g/ml of monoclonal antibody 1887 as an opsonin. Macrophage-…

… and pheromone receptors alone are sufficient to confer haploid cell identity in C. … control
of haploid cell identity in C. neoformans is mediated by MAT-encoded cell-cell communication …

… in the human-pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans during growth at 37C. Genes
with … during growth at 37C, suggesting that a conserved transcriptional program is used by C. …

… Cryptococcus neoformans is a ubiquitous environmental fungus and an opportunistic …
cryptococcal meningitis. Advances in genomics, genetics, and cellular and molecular biology of C. …

… Cryptococcus neoformans was first isolated from peach juice by Sanfelice in 1894 in Italy
and was named Saccharomyces neoformans (… about the identity of the cryptococcosis agent …