You might call Candida albicans a shape-shifter: As this fungus grows, it can multiply as single, oval-shaped cells called yeast, or propagate in an elongated form called hypha, consisting of ...

Filamentous fungal cells grow in various shapes and sizes, from ellipsoidal yeast forms 10 μm in length to tubular, branched hyphae that can spread over metres (Box 1; Fig. 1).Even genetically ...

Histoplasma capsulatum is a primary fungal pathogen that can switch between a sporulating hyphal form in the soil and a yeast form in the host. Growth in the yeast form is thought to be essential ...

Form, function and a deadly fungus Date: December 21, 2021 Source: Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan Summary: New research marks a major step forward in understanding C. auris biology ...

Colonies of baker’s yeast, or Saccharomyces cerevisiae, pictured under a microscope. Yeast don’t grow this way in bread dough: The images are from a 2016 study in the lab of UB biologist Paul Cullen ...

C. albicans is a yeast that typically grows in small amounts in the mouth, on the skin, and in the intestines.The basic yeast form is commensal, or coexists peacefully in the body, but given the ...

Using baker's yeast, the researchers discovered that the plant hormone strigolactone (SL) activates fungal genes and proteins associated with phosphate metabolism, a system that is key to growth.

Yeast is a vegan-friendly food. Neither animal nor plant, yeast is a microscopic member of the fungus family, and its most common culinary strain is Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Although yeast is ...

To understand how C. albicans accumulates manganese, Culotta’s team used CRISPR-Cas9 to knock out genes Smf12 and Smf13 to impair manganese transporter function. Without functioning transporters, ...

This process ultimately benefited the benign yeast form in the gut. Ost referred to this kind of control over a fungi population by the immune system as “immune sculpting.” ...