Nutritional factors determine germ tube formation inCandida albicans
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Medical Mycology
- Vol. 26 (2) , 127-131
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02681218880000181
Abstract
Following a short (3h) period of carbon starvation, exponential phase yeast cells of Candida albicans rapidly (T50 45 min) formed germ tubes in a glucose/ammonium ion solution. The presence of both a sugar (glucose, sucrose or galactose) and a nitrogen source (ammonium ion or an amino acid metabolized via glutamate) was critical for morphogenesis.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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