Glucans are the most abundant polysaccharides in the cell walls of fungi, and their
structures are highly variable. Accordingly, their glucose moieties may be joined through …

The composition and organization of the cell walls from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Candida
albicans, Aspergillus fumigatus, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Neurospora crassa, and …

This new edition of the universally acclaimed and widely-used textbook on fungal biology
has been completely re-written, drawing directly on the authors' research and teaching …

An extracellular matrix composed of a layered meshwork of β-glucans, chitin, and
mannoproteins encapsulates cells of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This organelle …

In the past three decades invasive mycoses have globally emerged as a persistent source of
healthcare-associated infections. The cell wall surrounding the fungal cell opposes the …

Cytokinesis is a temporally and spatially regulated process through which the cellular
constituents of the mother cell are partitioned into two daughter cells, permitting an increase …

A paradigm of cytokinesis in animal cells is that the actomyosin contractile ring provides the
primary force to divide the cell [1]. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe …

Schizosaccharomyces pombe cells divide by medial fission throughout contraction of an
actomyosin ring and deposition of a multilayered division septum that must be cleaved to …

Cryptococcus neoformans, which causes fatal infection in immunocompromised individuals,
has an elaborate polysaccharide capsule surrounding its cell wall. The cryptococcal capsule …

The Ase1/Prc1 proteins constitute a conserved microtubule-associated protein family that is
implicated in central spindle formation and cytokinesis. Here we characterize a role for …