Cryptococcus neoformans is a fungal pathogen that causes life-threatening infections in
immunocompromised individuals. Its main virulence factor is an extracellular polysaccharide …

Chemical biology is an emerging field that enables the study and manipulation of biological
systems with probes whose reactivities provide structural insights. The opportunistic fungal …

Cryptococcus neoformans is a fungal pathogen that causes life-threatening infections in
immunocompromised individuals. It is surrounded by three concentric structures that …

The polysaccharide capsule of fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans is a critical
virulence factor that has historically evaded complete characterization. Cryptococcal …

Cryptococcus neoformans is a soil-dwelling fungus that causes life-threatening illness in
immunocompromised individuals and latently infects many healthy individuals. C …

Many microbes are surrounded by phagocytosis‐inhibiting capsules. We took advantage of
the large size of the polysaccharide capsule of the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus …

Capsule production is common among bacterial species, but relatively rare in eukaryotic
microorganisms. Members of the fungal Cryptococcus genus are known to produce …

The capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans can undergo dramatic enlargement, a
phenomenon associated with virulence. A prior study that used Ab to the capsule as a …

The capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans is its dominant virulence factor and plays a key
role in the biology of this fungus. In this essay, we focus on the capsule as a cellular …

The human pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans has a distinctive polysaccharide
(PS) capsule that enlarges during infection. The capsule is essential for virulence, but the …