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    Evidence for mating of the "asexual" yeast Candida albicans in a mammalian host (2000)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2000-07-15
    Description: Since its classification nearly 80 years ago, the human pathogen Candida albicans has been designated as an asexual yeast. In this report, we describe the construction of C. albicans strains that were subtly altered at the mating-type-like (MTL) locus, a cluster of genes that resembles the mating-type loci of other fungi. These derivatives were capable of mating after inoculation into a mammalian host. C. albicans is a diploid organism, but most of the mating products isolated from a mouse host were tetrasomic for the two chromosomes that could be rigorously monitored and, overall, exhibited substantially higher than 2n DNA content. These observations demonstrated that C. albicans can recombine sexually.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hull, C M -- Raisner, R M -- Johnson, A D -- GM37049/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Jul 14;289(5477):307-10.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10894780" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Candida albicans/*physiology ; Conjugation, Genetic ; Female ; *Genes, Fungal ; *Genes, Mating Type, Fungal ; Homeodomain Proteins/genetics ; Humans ; Mice ; Multigene Family ; Ploidies ; *Recombination, Genetic ; Repressor Proteins/genetics ; *Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Identification of a mating type-like locus in the asexual pathogenic yeast Candida albicans (1999)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 1999-08-24
    Description: Candida albicans, the most prevalent fungal pathogen in humans, is thought to lack a sexual cycle. A set of C. albicans genes has been identified that corresponds to the master sexual cycle regulators a1, alpha1, and alpha2 of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae mating-type (MAT) locus. The C. albicans genes are arranged in a way that suggests that these genes are part of a mating type-like locus that is similar to the mating-type loci of other fungi. In addition to the transcriptional regulators a1, alpha1, and alpha2, the C. albicans mating type-like locus contains several genes not seen in other fungal MAT loci, including those encoding proteins similar to poly(A) polymerases, oxysterol binding proteins, and phosphatidylinositol kinases.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hull, C M -- Johnson, A D -- GM37049/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Aug 20;285(5431):1271-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10455055" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 1-Phosphatidylinositol 4-Kinase/genetics ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Candida albicans/chemistry/*genetics/physiology ; Gene Deletion ; *Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal ; *Genes, Fungal ; *Genes, Mating Type, Fungal ; Homeodomain Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism ; Introns ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Open Reading Frames ; Operator Regions, Genetic ; Polynucleotide Adenylyltransferase/genetics ; Receptors, Steroid/genetics ; Recombination, Genetic ; Repressor Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/chemistry/genetics ; *Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins ; Transcription, Genetic ; Transformation, Genetic
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    Control of filament formation in Candida albicans by the transcriptional repressor TUP1 (1997)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 1997-07-04
    Description: The pathogenic yeast Candida albicans regulates its cellular morphology in response to environmental conditions. Ellipsoidal, single cells (blastospores) predominate in rich media, whereas filaments composed of elongated cells that are attached end-to-end form in response to starvation, serum, and other conditions. The TUP1 gene, which encodes a general transcriptional repressor in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, was isolated from C. albicans and disrupted. The resulting tup1 mutant strain of C. albicans grew exclusively as filaments under all conditions tested. TUP1 was epistatic to the transcriptional activator CPH1, previously found to promote filamentous growth. The results suggest a model where TUP1 represses genes responsible for initiating filamentous growth and this repression is lifted under inducing environmental conditions.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Braun, B R -- Johnson, A D -- GM37049/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1997 Jul 4;277(5322):105-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0414, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9204892" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Candida albicans/*cytology/*genetics/growth & development/metabolism ; Cloning, Molecular ; Culture Media ; DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism ; Epistasis, Genetic ; Fungal Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/*metabolism ; Gene Deletion ; Genes, Fungal ; Glycerol/metabolism ; Models, Genetic ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; *Nuclear Proteins ; Phenotype ; Repressor Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; *Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins ; Sequence Alignment ; Temperature ; Transcription Factors/metabolism ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Crystal structure of the MATa1/MAT alpha 2 homeodomain heterodimer bound to DNA (1995)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 1995-10-13
    Description: The Saccharomyces cerevisiae MATa1 and MAT alpha 2 homeodomain proteins, which play a role in determining yeast cell type, form a heterodimer that binds DNA and represses transcription in a cell type-specific manner. Whereas the alpha 2 and a1 proteins on their own have only modest affinity for DNA, the a1/alpha 2 heterodimer binds DNA with high specificity and affinity. The three-dimensional crystal structure of the a1/alpha 2 homeodomain heterodimer bound to DNA was determined at a resolution of 2.5 A. The a1 and alpha 2 homeodomains bind in a head-to-tail orientation, with heterodimer contacts mediated by a 16-residue tail located carboxyl-terminal to the alpha 2 homeodomain. This tail becomes ordered in the presence of a1, part of it forming a short amphipathic helix that packs against the a1 homeodomain between helices 1 and 2. A pronounced 60 degree bend is induced in the DNA, which makes possible protein-protein and protein-DNA contacts that could not take place in a straight DNA fragment. Complex formation mediated by flexible protein-recognition peptides attached to stably folded DNA binding domains may prove to be a general feature of the architecture of other classes of eukaryotic transcriptional regulators.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Li, T -- Stark, M R -- Johnson, A D -- Wolberger, C -- GM-37049/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1995 Oct 13;270(5234):262-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205-2185, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7569974" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; DNA, Fungal/*chemistry/metabolism ; Fungal Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism ; Homeodomain Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Macromolecular Substances ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Operator Regions, Genetic ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Folding ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Repressor Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/*chemistry/genetics ; *Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins ; Transcription, Genetic
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