Candida albicans Biofilms and Human Disease

CJ Nobile, AD Johnson - Annual review of microbiology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
In humans, microbial cells (including bacteria, archaea, and fungi) greatly outnumber host
cells. Candida albicans is the most prevalent fungal species of the human microbiota; this …

[PDF][PDF] Global genetic networks and the genotype-to-phenotype relationship

M Costanzo, E Kuzmin, J van Leeuwen, B Mair… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Genetic interactions identify combinations of genetic variants that impinge on phenotype.
With whole-genome sequence information available for thousands of individuals within a …

The BioGRID interaction database: 2013 update

A Chatr-Aryamontri, BJ Breitkreutz… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets (BioGRID:
http//thebiogrid. org) is an open access archive of genetic and protein interactions that are …

The yeast deletion collection: a decade of functional genomics

G Giaever, C Nislow - Genetics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The yeast deletion collections comprise> 21,000 mutant strains that carry precise start-to-
stop deletions of∼ 6000 open reading frames. This collection includes heterozygous and …

Candida albicans triggers NLRP3-mediated pyroptosis in macrophages

M Wellington, K Koselny, FS Sutterwala… - Eukaryotic cell, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Pyroptosis is an inflammasome-mediated programmed cell death pathway triggered in
macrophages by a variety of stimuli, including intracellular bacterial pathogens. Activation of …

Global analysis of fungal morphology exposes mechanisms of host cell escape

TR O'Meara, AO Veri, T Ketela, B Jiang… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Developmental transitions between single-cell yeast and multicellular filaments underpin
virulence of diverse fungal pathogens. For the leading human fungal pathogen Candida …

A CRISPR–Cas9-based gene drive platform for genetic interaction analysis in Candida albicans

RS Shapiro, A Chavez, CBM Porter, M Hamblin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Candida albicans is the leading cause of fungal infections; yet, complex genetic interaction
analysis remains cumbersome in this diploid pathogen. Here, we developed a CRISPR …

Systematic Phenotyping of a Large-Scale Candida glabrata Deletion Collection Reveals Novel Antifungal Tolerance Genes

T Schwarzmueller, B Ma, E Hiller, F Istel… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The opportunistic fungal pathogen Candida glabrata is a frequent cause of candidiasis,
causing infections ranging from superficial to life-threatening disseminated disease. The …

Exploring whole-genome duplicate gene retention with complex genetic interaction analysis

E Kuzmin, B VanderSluis, AN Nguyen Ba, W Wang… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Whole-genome duplication (WGD) events are pervasive in eukaryotes,
shaping the genomes of simple single-celled organisms, such as yeast, as well as those of …

Gene Essentiality Analyzed by In Vivo Transposon Mutagenesis and Machine Learning in a Stable Haploid Isolate of Candida albicans

ES Segal, V Gritsenko, A Levitan, B Yadav, N Dror… - MBio, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Knowing the full set of essential genes for a given organism provides important information
about ways to promote, and to limit, its growth and survival. For many non-model organisms …