Histoplasma capsulatum is a fungal pathogen that causes respiratory and systemic disease
by proliferating within macrophages. While much is known about histoplasmosis, only a …

▪ Abstract Fungal diseases have become increasingly important in the past few years.
Because few fungi are professional pathogens, fungal pathogenic mechanisms tend to be …

In order to establish infections within the mammalian host, pathogens must protect
themselves against toxic reactive oxygen species produced by phagocytes of the immune …

Histoplasmosis is a systemic mycosis caused by the thermally dimorphic fungus
Histoplasma capsulatum. Although healthy individuals can develop histoplasmosis, the …

Histoplasma capsulatum, a fungal pathogen of humans, switches from a filamentous spore-
forming mold in the soil to a pathogenic budding-yeast form in the human host. This …

The Paracoccidioides genus includes two species of thermally dimorphic fungi that cause
paracoccidioidomycosis, a neglected health-threatening human systemic mycosis endemic …

The implementation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens as a transformation tool revolutionized
approaches to discover and understand gene functions in a large number of fungal species …

Abstract LC3-associated phagocytosis (LAP) is a non-canonical autophagy pathway
regulated by Rubicon, with an emerging role in immune homeostasis and antifungal host …

Fungi are adept at changing their cell shape and developmental program in response to
signals in their surroundings. Here we focus on a group of evolutionarily related fungal …

The thermally dimorphic fungi are a unique group of fungi within the Ascomycota phylum
that respond to shifts in temperature by converting between hyphae (22–25° C) and yeast …