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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have identified the regulator of the phase transition from the non-pathogenic hyphal form to the pathogenic yeast form in dimorphic fungal pathogens, according to a paper published ...

Though each yeast organism is made up of just one cell, yeast cells live together in multicellular colonies. They reproduce through a process called budding, in which a “mother cell” grows a ...

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.

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.” ...

Fungi are incredible beings — neither plants, nor animals, they are a body of species as large as both. Inside their world are yeasts, moulds, lichens, mushrooms and conks or wood ears.