A new multi-institutional study led by researchers at Michigan State University has characterized how fungi adapt to restructure their cell walls, effectively thwarting current antifungal medications.

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“the surface hydrophobin (RodA) that forms the rodlet layer around fungal spores (the conidia) prevents their recognition by dendritic cells (DCs)” The avoidance of immune activation has ...

A new study from EMBL Heidelberg's Dey group and their collaborators, recently published in Nature, explores how different modes of cell division evolved in close relatives of fungi and animals ...

Identifying changes to the fungal RNA will allow a better understanding ... All chemical changes to RNA in the cell together form the epitranscriptome, which often serves as a dimmer switch ...