Author(s): Dumeaux V; Massahi S; Bettauer V; Mottola A; Dukovny A; Khurdia SS; Costa ACBP; Omran RP; Simpson S; Xie JL; Whiteway M; Berman J; Hallett MT;

Candida albicans, an opportunistic human pathogen, poses a significant threat to human health and is associated with significant socio-economic burden. Current antifungal treatments fail, at least in part, because C. albicans can initiate a strong drug tolerance response that allows some cells to ...

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Author(s): Bettauer V; Costa ACBP; Omran RP; Massahi S; Kirbizakis E; Simpson S; Dumeaux V; Law C; Whiteway M; Hallett MT;

We present deep learning-based approaches for exploring the complex array of morphologies exhibited by the opportunistic human pathogen Candida albicans. Our system, entitled Candescence, automatically detects C. albicans cells from differential image contrast microscopy and labels each detected ...

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Author(s): Feng Y; Zhang Y; Li J; Omran RP; Whiteway M; Feng J;

The infection of a mammalian host by the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans involves fungal resistance to reactive oxygen species (ROS)-induced DNA damage stress generated by the defending macrophages or neutrophils. Thus, the DNA damage response in C. albicans may contribute to its pathogenicity. Uncovering the transcriptional changes triggered by the DN ...

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Author(s): Rashid S; Correia-Mesquita TO; Godoy P; Omran RP; Whiteway M;

SAGA (Spt-Ada-Gcn5-acetyltransferase) is a highly conserved, multiprotein co-activator complex that consists of five distinct modules. It has two enzymatic functions, a histone acetyltransferase (HAT) and a deubiquitinase (DUB) and plays a central role in processes such as transcription initiation, elongation, protein stability, and telomere maintenance. ...

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Author(s): Omran RP; Ramírez-Zavala B; Aji Tebung W; Yao S; Feng J; Law C; Dumeaux V; Morschhäuser J; Whiteway M;

Zinc cluster transcription factors are essential fungal regulators of gene expression. In the pathogen Candida albicans, the gene orf19.1604 encodes a zinc cluster transcription factor regulating filament development. Hyperactivation of orf19.1604, which we have named RHA1 for Regulator of Hyphal ...

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Author(s): Costa ACBP; Omran RP; Law C; Dumeaux V; Whiteway M;

Candida albicans opaque cells release pheromones to stimulate cells of opposite mating type to activate their pheromone response pathway. Although this fungal pathogen shares orthologous proteins involved in the process with Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the pathway in each organism has unique characteristics. We have used GFP-tagged fusion proteins to invest ...

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Author(s): Feng J, Islam A, Bean B, Feng J, Sparapani S, Shrivastava M, Goyal A, Omran RP, Mallick J, Whiteway M

Mol Biol Cell. 2020 Jan 15;:mbcE19060316 Authors: Feng J, Islam A, Bean B, Feng J, Sparapani S, Shrivastava M, Goyal A, Omran RP, Mallick J, Whiteway M

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Author(s): Xu H, Fang T, Omran RP, Whiteway M, Jiang L

Cell Commun Signal. 2020 Jan 03;18(1):1 Authors: Xu H, Fang T, Omran RP, Whiteway M, Jiang L

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Author(s): Costa ACBP, Omran RP, Correia-Mesquita TO, Dumeaux V, Whiteway M

Sci Rep. 2019 Jun 24;9(1):9187 Authors: Costa ACBP, Omran RP, Correia-Mesquita TO, Dumeaux V, Whiteway M

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Author(s): Rastghalam G, Omran RP, Alizadeh M, Fulton D, Mallick J, Whiteway M

mSphere. 2019 02 20;4(1): Authors: Rastghalam G, Omran RP, Alizadeh M, Fulton D, Mallick J, Whiteway M

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Author(s): Islam A, Tebbji F, Mallick J, Regan H, Dumeaux V, Omran RP, Whiteway M

Genetics. 2019 02;211(2):579-595 Authors: Islam A, Tebbji F, Mallick J, Regan H, Dumeaux V, Omran RP, Whiteway M

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