Influence of farnesol on the morphogenes
โ
Justine Lorek; Stefanie Pรถggeler; Mirko R. Weide; Roland Breves; Dirk P. Bockmรผh
๐
Article
๐
2008
๐
John Wiley and Sons
๐
English
โ 433 KB
## Abstract Farnesol was the first quorumโsensing regulator to be found in eukaryotic cells. In __Candida albicans__, a dimorphic fungal human pathogen, farnesol blocks the yeastโtoโfilamentous growth transition. Here we show that in __Aspergillus niger__ farnesol acts as an inhibitor of conidiatio