Telomeric ORFS in Candida albicans: Does Mediator Tail Wag the Yeast?
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Telomeric ORFS in Candida albicans: Does Mediator Tail Wag the Yeast?
Recent studies of fungal genomes have shown that subtelomeric regions of chromosomes are areas of rapid evolution that facilitate adaptation to novel niches [1]. Several years ago, analysis of the genome of the human pathogenic yeast Candida albicans revealed the presence of a large family of telomeric orfs (TLO genes) [2]. The function of this gene family remained an enigma in C. albicans gene...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS Pathogens
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1553-7374
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004614