Exogenous folates stimulate growth and budding of Candida glabrata
May 1, 2015
Folate, vitamin B9, is well recognized as being essential for cell growth. The utilization of folate is common to all cells, but the source of it may be quite different. This article reports a novel response of yeast to folates that may increase the utility of yeast as a model to study folate transport and signaling.
What’s the role of autophagy in trypanosomes?
January 4, 2014
This article comments on Proto et al. (Microbial Cell, 2014), who report first insights into the molecular mechanism of autophagy in African trypanosomes by generating reporter bloodstream form cell lines.