Secreted Aspartic Protease Cleavage of Candida albicans Msb2 Activates Cek1 MAPK Signaling Affecting Biofilm Formation and Oropharyngeal Candidiasis

• Sumant Puri ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sumant Puri, Rohitashw Kumar

  Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

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• Rohitashw Kumar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sumant Puri, Rohitashw Kumar

  Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

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• Sonia Chadha,

  Affiliations Department of Oral Biology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India

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• Swetha Tati,

  Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

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• Heather R. Conti,

  Affiliations Department of Oral Biology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Bernhard Hube,

  Affiliations Department of Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knoell Institute Jena, Jena, Germany, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

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• Paul J. Cullen,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

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• Mira Edgerton

  * E-mail: edgerto@buffalo.edu

  Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

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