A Velvet Transcription Factor Specifically Activates Mating through a Novel Mating-Responsive Protein in the Human Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus deneoformans-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A Velvet Transcription Factor Specifically Activates Mating through a Novel Mating-Responsive Protein in the Human Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus deneoformans

Published:2022-06-29 Issue:3 Volume:10 Page:
ISSN:2165-0497
Container-title:Microbiology Spectrum
language:en
Short-container-title:Microbiol Spectr

Author:

Liu Huimin¹²,Yao Xiaoxia²³,Ke Weixin²³,Ding Hao²³,He Guang-Jun²,Ma Shuang²,Peng Yan⁴,Xu Xinping⁵,Liao Guojian⁴,Tian Xiuyun²,Wang Linqi¹²³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Life Sciences, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China

2. State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

4. College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Medical Research Institute, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

5. Jiangxi Institute of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Jiangxi, China

Abstract

The human fungal pathogen C. deneoformans is a model organism for studying fungal sexual reproduction, which is considered to be important to infection. However, the specific regulatory determinants for activation of sexual reproduction remain poorly understood.

Funder

MOST | National Key Research and Development Program of China

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Jiangxi Science and Technology Agency

Natural Science Foundation Project of CQ

CAS Interdisciplinary Innovation Team

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Cell Biology,Microbiology (medical),Genetics,General Immunology and Microbiology,Ecology,Physiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/spectrum.02653-21