The wall gives a Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell its osmotic integrity; defines cell shape
during budding growth, mating, sporulation, and pseudohypha formation; and presents …

The Candida albicans cell wall maintains the structural integrity of the organism in addtion to
providing a physical contact interface with the environment. The major components of the …

Virulence of Candida is linked with its ability to form biofilms. Once established, biofilm
infections are nearly impossible to eradicate. Biofilm cells live immersed in a self-produced …

Non-conventional yeasts are playing important roles as cell factories for bioproduction of
biofuels, food additives and proteins with outstanding natural characteristics. However, the …

Wheat powdery mildew, Blumeria graminis forma specialis tritici, is a devastating fungal
pathogen with a poorly understood evolutionary history. Here we report the draft genome …

A majority of infections caused by Candida albicans—the most frequent fungal pathogen—
are associated with biofilm formation. A salient feature of C. albicans biofilms is the presence …

Moonlighting–the performance of more than one function by a single protein–is becoming
recognized as a common phenomenon with important implications for systems biology and …

Powdery mildews, obligate biotrophic fungal parasites on a wide range of important crops,
can be controlled by plant resistance (R) genes, but these are rapidly overcome by parasite …

Background Pichia pastoris is widely used as a production platform for heterologous
proteins and model organism for organelle proliferation. Without a published genome …

It is generally believed that protein secretion or exocytosis is achieved via a conventional ER
(endoplasmic reticulum)–Golgi-TGN (trans-Golgi network)–PM (plasma membrane) pathway …