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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Possible Roles of Mannoproteins in the Construction of Candida Albicans Cell Wall

Salvador MormeneoM V ElorzaMaria ÀNgels Cebrià I IranzoRaquel SanjuánRafael Sentandreu

subject

carbohydrates (lipids)Cell wallbiologyChemistryCandida albicansbiology.organism_classificationCell biology

description

The shape of Candida albicans cells depends on their cell walls and some of their mannoproteins may act as modulators of the final molecular architecture. If that were the case, the wall mannoproteins might form part of what could be called a “morphogenetic code”.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2834-0_14