Genome analysis of three Pneumocystis species reveals adaptation mechanisms to life exclusively in mammalian hosts
oleh: Liang Ma, Zehua Chen, Da Wei Huang, Geetha Kutty, Mayumi Ishihara, Honghui Wang, Amr Abouelleil, Lisa Bishop, Emma Davey, Rebecca Deng, Xilong Deng, Lin Fan, Giovanna Fantoni, Michael Fitzgerald, Emile Gogineni, Jonathan M. Goldberg, Grace Handley, Xiaojun Hu, Charles Huber, Xiaoli Jiao, Kristine Jones, Joshua Z. Levin, Yueqin Liu, Pendexter Macdonald, Alexandre Melnikov, Castle Raley, Monica Sassi, Brad T. Sherman, Xiaohong Song, Sean Sykes, Bao Tran, Laura Walsh, Yun Xia, Jun Yang, Sarah Young, Qiandong Zeng, Xin Zheng, Robert Stephens, Chad Nusbaum, Bruce W. Birren, Parastoo Azadi, Richard A. Lempicki, Christina A. Cuomo, Joseph A. Kovacs
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2016-02-01 |
Deskripsi
Pneumocystis jirovecii is a fungus that can cause life-threatening pneumonia in immunocompromised patients. Here, the authors sequence the genomes of P. jirovecii and two other Pneumocystisspecies, and show the unexpected absence of chitin (a near universal fungal cell wall component).