There has recently been an explosion of interest in the analysis of breath constituents as a
way of monitoring inflammation and oxidative stress in the lungs. Here we review the use of …

Two well characterized signal transduction cascades regulating fungal development and
virulence are the MAP kinase and cAMP signaling cascades. Here we review the current …

The human pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans secretes a phospholipase enzyme
that demonstrates phospholipase B (PLB), lysophospholipase hydrolase and …

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

Cryptococcus neoformans, an encapsulated fungal pathogen, causes meningoencephalitis
in immunocompromised patients. Recent in vivo studies have demonstrated that C …

Virulence is the outcome of an interaction between the host and a microbe and is
characterized by a large array of opposing reactions operating at the host-pathogen …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi take up nitrogen from the soil, translocate it and transfer it
to the host plant (Jennings, 1995; Smith & Read, 1997), often in significant quantities …

Acidification of vesicular compartments plays an important role in a number of cellular
transport processes, including protein secretion, metal cofactor insertion, glycosylation and …

Sophisticated molecular biological research has revealed many virulence attributes in at
least four pathogenic fungi, but the future study of fungal virulence requires investigators to …

The polysaccharide capsule surrounding Cryptococcus neoformans comprises manose,
xylose and glucuronic acid, of which mannose is the major constituent. The GDP‐mannose …