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Aug 2026
A bacterial metabolite rewires fungal metabolism, triggering the hyphae-to-yeast transition.
Fungi transition between cell morphologies to adapt to and colonize environments. For Candida albicans, commensal colonization of humans and virulence depend on a reversible switch between invasive hyphae and disseminating yeast cells. The yeast-to-hyphae transition is well understood, but comparatively little is known...
Manasa Bharathwaj, Vinzenz Hofferek, Angavai Swaminathan et al.
· Current Biology · 1 citation