Deacetylation of Fungal Exopolysaccharide Mediates Adhesion and Biofilm Formation

DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00252-16

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^aDepartments of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, Canada
^bDivision of Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles Biomedical Medical Institute at Harbor-University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA
^cProgram in Molecular Structure & Function, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
^dDepartment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
^eNational Research Council, Ottawa, Canada
^fDepartment of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, USA
^gInfectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health Program, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada

Address correspondence to Donald C. Sheppard, don.sheppard{at}mcgill.ca.
↵* Present address: Mark J. Lee, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA; Alexander M. Geller, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Citation Lee MJ, Geller AM, Bamford NC, Liu H, Gravelat FN, Snarr BD, Le Mauff F, Chabot J, Ralph B, Ostapska H, Lehoux M, Cerone RP, Baptista SD, Vinogradov E, Stajich JE, Filler SG, Howell PL, Sheppard DC. 2016. Deacetylation of fungal exopolysaccharide mediates adhesion and biofilm formation. mBio 7(2):e00252-16. doi:10.1128/mBio.00252-16.

This article is a direct contribution from a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.

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