Candidalysin is a fungal peptide toxin critical for mucosal infection
- Submitting institution
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University of Exeter
- Unit of assessment
- 5 - Biological Sciences
- Output identifier
- 4404
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/nature17625
- Title of journal
- Nature
- Article number
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- First page
- 64
- Volume
- 532
- Issue
- 7597
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fnature17625/MediaObjects/41586_2016_BFnature17625_MOESM122_ESM.pdf
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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29
- Research group(s)
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B - Centre for Medical Mycology
- Citation count
- 285
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
- Duncan Wilson is co-first author on the manuscript. He made a substantial contribution to the conception and design of the study.
He generated all of the molecular tools and genetic constructs used throughout the study, including the Candida albicans mutant with the Candidalysin-encoding DNA excision. He was involved in the interpretation of the data throughout. He helped draft the paper and personally generated all of the bar graphs in the manuscript.
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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