Publication Date:
2012-09-18
Description:
The dimorphic switch from a single-cell budding yeast to a filamentous form enables Saccharomyces cerevisiae to forage for nutrients and the opportunistic pathogen Candida albicans to invade human tissues and evade the immune system. We constructed a genome-wide set of targeted deletion alleles and introduced them into a filamentous S. cerevisiae strain, Sigma1278b. We identified genes involved in morphologically distinct forms of filamentation: haploid invasive growth, biofilm formation, and diploid pseudohyphal growth. Unique genes appear to underlie each program, but we also found core genes with general roles in filamentous growth, including MFG1 (YDL233w), whose product binds two morphogenetic transcription factors, Flo8 and Mss11, and functions as a critical transcriptional regulator of filamentous growth in both S. cerevisiae and C. albicans.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ryan, Owen -- Shapiro, Rebecca S -- Kurat, Christoph F -- Mayhew, David -- Baryshnikova, Anastasia -- Chin, Brian -- Lin, Zhen-Yuan -- Cox, Michael J -- Vizeacoumar, Frederick -- Cheung, Doris -- Bahr, Sondra -- Tsui, Kyle -- Tebbji, Faiza -- Sellam, Adnane -- Istel, Fabian -- Schwarzmuller, Tobias -- Reynolds, Todd B -- Kuchler, Karl -- Gifford, David K -- Whiteway, Malcolm -- Giaever, Guri -- Nislow, Corey -- Costanzo, Michael -- Gingras, Anne-Claude -- Mitra, Robi David -- Andrews, Brenda -- Fink, Gerald R -- Cowen, Leah E -- Boone, Charles -- 42516-4/Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada -- GM035010/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM40266/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- MOP-97939/Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Sep 14;337(6100):1353-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1224339.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22984072" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Alleles
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Biofilms/growth & development
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Candida albicans/cytology/*genetics/*growth & development
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DNA Mutational Analysis
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Gene Deletion
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*Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal
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Hyphae/genetics/growth & development
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Nuclear Proteins/genetics
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae/cytology/*genetics/*growth & development
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/genetics
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Trans-Activators/genetics
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Transcription Factors/genetics
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Transcription, Genetic
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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