Utilization of the mating scaffold protein in the evolution of a new signal transduction pathway for biofilm development.
Authors:Yi S, Sahni N, Daniels KJ, Lu KL, Huang G, Garnaas AM, Pujol C, Srikantha T, Soll DR,
Journal:MBio
PubMed ID:21221248
'Among the hemiascomycetes, only Candida albicans must switch from the white phenotype to the opaque phenotype to mate. In the recent evolution of this transition, mating-incompetent white cells acquired a unique response to mating pheromone, resulting in the formation of a white cell biofilm that facilitates mating. All of the ... More