Publication Date:
2005-01-18
Description:
Cryptococcus neoformans is a basidiomycetous yeast ubiquitous in the environment, a model for fungal pathogenesis, and an opportunistic human pathogen of global importance. We have sequenced its approximately 20-megabase genome, which contains approximately 6500 intron-rich gene structures and encodes a transcriptome abundant in alternatively spliced and antisense messages. The genome is rich in transposons, many of which cluster at candidate centromeric regions. The presence of these transposons may drive karyotype instability and phenotypic variation. C. neoformans encodes unique genes that may contribute to its unusual virulence properties, and comparison of two phenotypically distinct strains reveals variation in gene content in addition to sequence polymorphisms between the genomes.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3520129/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3520129/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Loftus, Brendan J -- Fung, Eula -- Roncaglia, Paola -- Rowley, Don -- Amedeo, Paolo -- Bruno, Dan -- Vamathevan, Jessica -- Miranda, Molly -- Anderson, Iain J -- Fraser, James A -- Allen, Jonathan E -- Bosdet, Ian E -- Brent, Michael R -- Chiu, Readman -- Doering, Tamara L -- Donlin, Maureen J -- D'Souza, Cletus A -- Fox, Deborah S -- Grinberg, Viktoriya -- Fu, Jianmin -- Fukushima, Marilyn -- Haas, Brian J -- Huang, James C -- Janbon, Guilhem -- Jones, Steven J M -- Koo, Hean L -- Krzywinski, Martin I -- Kwon-Chung, June K -- Lengeler, Klaus B -- Maiti, Rama -- Marra, Marco A -- Marra, Robert E -- Mathewson, Carrie A -- Mitchell, Thomas G -- Pertea, Mihaela -- Riggs, Florenta R -- Salzberg, Steven L -- Schein, Jacqueline E -- Shvartsbeyn, Alla -- Shin, Heesun -- Shumway, Martin -- Specht, Charles A -- Suh, Bernard B -- Tenney, Aaron -- Utterback, Terry R -- Wickes, Brian L -- Wortman, Jennifer R -- Wye, Natasja H -- Kronstad, James W -- Lodge, Jennifer K -- Heitman, Joseph -- Davis, Ronald W -- Fraser, Claire M -- Hyman, Richard W -- AI47087/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI48594/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI050184/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI050184-05/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL088905/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL088905-04A2/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Feb 25;307(5713):1321-4. Epub 2005 Jan 13.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. bjloftus@tigr.org〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15653466" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Alternative Splicing
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Cell Wall/metabolism
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Chromosomes, Fungal/genetics
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Computational Biology
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Cryptococcus neoformans/*genetics/pathogenicity/physiology
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DNA Transposable Elements
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Fungal Proteins/metabolism
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Gene Library
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Genes, Fungal
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*Genome, Fungal
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Humans
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Introns
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Phenotype
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Polymorphism, Genetic
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Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
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Polysaccharides/metabolism
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RNA, Antisense
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Transcription, Genetic
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Virulence
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Virulence Factors/metabolism
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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