Evidence for Mating of the "Asexual" Yeast Candida albicans in a Mammalian Host
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- 14 July 2000
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- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 289 (5477) , 307-310
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.289.5477.307
Abstract
Since its classification nearly 80 years ago, the human pathogen Candida albicans has been designated as an asexual yeast. In this report, we describe the construction of C. albicans strains that were subtly altered at the mating-type–like ( MTL ) locus, a cluster of genes that resembles the mating-type loci of other fungi. These derivatives were capable of mating after inoculation into a mammalian host. C. albicans is a diploid organism, but most of the mating products isolated from a mouse host were tetrasomic for the two chromosomes that could be rigorously monitored and, overall, exhibited substantially higher than 2n DNA content. These observations demonstrated that C. albicans can recombine sexually.Keywords
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