Research Topic:
Fungal pathogenesis: the host-pathogen interaction for the yeast pathogen Candida glabrata
Publications:
Kaur R, Ma B, Cormack BP. A family of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked asparyl proteases is required for virulence of Candida glabrata. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2007; 104:7628-7633.
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Domergue, R., I. Castaño, A. De Las Peñas, M. Zupancic, V. Lockatell, J.R. Hebel, D. Johnson and B.P. Cormack (2005) Nicotinic acid limitation regulates silencing of Candida adhesins during UTI. Science. 308: 866-870.
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Castaño, I., S. Pan, M. Zupancic, C. Hennequin, B. Dujon, and B.P. Cormack (2005) Telomere length control and transcriptional regulation of sub-telomeric adhesins in Candida glabrata. Mol Microbiol. 55: 1246-1258.
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Frieman, M.B. and B.P. Cormack (2003) The omega-site sequence of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae can determine distribution between the membrane and the cell wall. Mol Microbiol. 50: 883-896.
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De Las Peñas, A., S. Pan, I. Castaño, J. Alder, R. Cregg and B.P. Cormack (2003) Virulence-related surface glycoproteins in the yeast pathogen Candida glabrata are encoded in subtelomeric clusters and subject to RAP1- and SIR-dependent transcriptional silencing. Genes Dev. 17(18): 2245-2258.
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Castaño I, R. Kaur, S. Pan, R. Cregg, A. De Las Peñas, N. Guo, M. Biery, N. Craig and B.P. Cormack (2003) Tn7-Based Genome-Wide Random Insertional Mutagenesis of Candida glabrata. Genome Res. 13(5): 905-913.
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Frieman, M.B., J.M. McCaffery, and B.P. Cormack (2002) Modular domain structure in the Candida glabrata adhesin Epa1p, a beta1,6 glucan-cross-linked cell wall protein. Mol Microbiol. 46(2): 479-492.
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