Methods for the genetics and molecular biology of Candida albicans.
Methods for the genetics and molecular biology of Candida albicans.
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白色念珠菌的遗传学和分子生物学方法。
DOI:
10.1016/0003-2697(88)90559-3
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发表时间:
1988
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Magee,BB
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作者:
Magee,PT;Rikkerink,EH;Magee,BB
The opportunistic dimorphic fungus Cun-trophs, which might be expected to be homodida albicans has been the subject of a great zygous for the wild-type allele of the gene deal of investigation, due in part to its in-mutated in the auxotroph, no longer yielded creasing importance in causing disease in im-a restricted spectrum of auxotrophs upon irmunocompromised patients. Areas investi-radiation, another prediction of the diploid gated range from the adherence to various hypothesis since mitotic crossing-over yields cell types of the yeast and hyphal forms to the reciprocal products (7, 8). Recombination role of secreted enzymes in pathogenesis (l-analysis of revertants of auxotrophs carrying 3). Extensive studies have been carried out on linked mutations also supported the hypothethe factors involved in the dimorphic transi-sis that such revertants were heterozygous tion (1). Recent reports of phenotypic insta-and, therefore, diploid (9). It supported the bility in this organism, leading to colony-type idea that irradiation induces mitotic crossingand morphological transitions which occur at over since, as predicted by the crossingfrequencies of 10d2 to 10e4 per cell division, over hypothesis, recombination sometimes make the organism even more interesting brought only the distal gene to homozygosity, from a biological point of view and may re-whereas at other times it brought both linked late to its pathogenesis (4-6). For many years mutations to homozygosity. Biochemical exthe work on this organism was hampered by periments comparing the information conthe lack of any way to approach the genetics, tent of the genome with its physical size since it is a member of the Fungi Imperfecti further supported the diploid interpretaand has no known sexual cycle. tion (10).In 1980, Whelan et al.(7, s) found, in trying to make auxotrophs using ultraviolet irradiation, that the organism was diploid. This was evidenced by the tendency for a particular strain to yield one or a few kinds of auxotrophs. It was suggested that this was due to preexisting heterozygosities which were rendered homozygous by mitotic crossing-over upon irradiation. This interpretation was supported by the demonstration that if the auxotrophic strains were rendered heterozygous by selection of revertants, the same auxotrophic markers reappeared upon further irradiation. By contrast, prototrophic sister cells (twin spots) of the original auxo-