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SUBMITTER: Bottcher B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4486669 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Böttcher Bettina B Palige Katja K Jacobsen Ilse D ID Hube Bernhard B Brunke Sascha S
Eukaryotic cell 20150522 7
The supply and intracellular homeostasis of trace metals are essential for every living organism. Therefore, the struggle for micronutrients between a pathogen and its host is an important determinant in the infection process. In this work, we focus on the acquisition of zinc by Candida dubliniensis, an emerging pathogen closely related to Candida albicans. We show that the transcription factor Csr1 is essential for C. dubliniensis to regulate zinc uptake mechanisms under zinc limitation: it gov ...[more]