Quorum Sensing in the Dimorphic FungusCandida albicans Is Mediated by Farnesol

By Jacob M. Hornby, E. Jensen, A. Lisec, Joseph J. Tasto, B. Jahnke, Richard S. Shoemaker, P. Dussault, K. Nickerson. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2001

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Subfields: Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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In Infectious Diseases

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Citations in the corpus

• GENETIC CONTROL OF CANDIDA ALBICANS BIOFILM DEVELOPMENT (2010, neutral): “In addition, several biofilm genes are involved in the response to the quorum sensing molecule farneso”
• Microbial interactions within the plant holobiont (2018, neutral): “The latter secretes the signaling molecule farnesol to control filamentation [119, 120], to inhibit biofilm formation [121], and to activate oxidative stress responses or drug efflux [122, 123].”
• Yeast interactions and wine flavour. (2003, background): “Recently, farnesol has been identified as a quorum sensing molecule that inhibits the transition of Candida albicans from the yeast to the hyphal stage and its ability to form biofilms (Hornby et al., 2001; Ramage et al., 2002).”
• Candida parapsilosis, an Emerging Fungal Pathogen (2008, background): “albicans that inhibits biofilm formation as well as filamentation (115, 225).”
• Growth of Candida albicans hyphae (2011, background): “albicans population by a quorum sensing mechanism that is based on the sesquiterpene farnesol, which is secreted into the environment and inhibits hyphal formatio”
• Inhibition of Candida albicans Biofilm Formation by Farnesol, a Quorum-Sensing Molecule (2002, background): “(12) that an extracellular compound released by C.”