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TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue 11, Pages 497-505Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2006.09.003
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL 59842] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [AI 33142, AI 33774] Funding Source: Medline
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Cryptococcus neoformans is a soil-dwelling fungus that causes life-threatening illness in immunocompromised individuals and latently infects many healthy individuals. C. neoformans, unlike other human pathogenic fungi, is surrounded by a polysaccharide capsule that is essential for survival and enables C. neoformans to thwart the mammalian immune system. The capsule is a dynamic structure that undergoes changes in size and rearranges during budding. Here, the latest information and unresolved questions regarding capsule synthesis, structure, assembly, growth and rearrangements are discussed along with the concept that self-assembly is important in capsular dynamics.
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