… This article reviews current knowledge of cryptococcal cell wall and capsule biosynthesis …
neoformans from other pathogenic fungi. This article explores biosynthesis of the cell wall and …

… Purified cell walls derived from Cryptococcus neoformans … the cell walls contained glucose,
galactose, mannose, and xylose . The polysaccharides not covalently bound to the cell walls …

… In summary, we report the existence of membrane vesicles containing capsular polysaccharide
in C. neoformans cultures and host cells infected with this … In contrast to prokaryotes, C. …

… Cryptococcus neoformans cell wall is a dynamic structure that undergoes constant … , the
rodlets are degraded and the cell wall polysaccharides that were concealed become exposed, …

… Observation of the Cryptococcus neoformans cell wall by electron microscopy reveals the …
linked to all the other cell wall polysaccharides and to the majority of cell wall proteins (65). …

… The cell envelope of C. neoformans is composed of a rigid cell wall, composed mainly of
glucans (33); a capsular polysaccharide, GXM, consisting ofmannose, xylose, glucuronic acid, …

… The cell envelope of Cryptococcus neoformans is composed of a rigid wall constituted
mainly of … San-Bias G: The cell wall of fungal human pathogens: Its possible role in hostparasite …

… and pure enzymes) to treat cryptococcal cell walls before performing the capsule transfer …
of capsular polysaccharide was altered in parallel with degradation of the cell wall, suggesting …

… Cryptococcus neoformans signals through the Rim101 transcription factor to regulate cell wall
… and allows the attachment of surface molecules such as capsule polysaccharides. In turn, …

… In Cryptococcus neoformans, capsular polysaccharides are located externally to the cell
wall. The polysaccharides constituting the capsule can be found attached to the …