The genotoxic stress-inducible gene GEI1(Orf19.3109) is a repressor of virulence in Candida albicans
The findings uncouple transcriptional induction from conventional DNA repair functions and reveal a novel regulatory checkpoint where GEI1 links genotoxic stress signaling to the suppression of key pathogenic traits, highlighting a complex strategy by which C. albicans balances stress adaptation and virulence control.