Glucosamine stimulates pheromone-independent dimorphic transition in Cryptococcus neoformans by promoting Crz1 nuclear translocation

• Xinping Xu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xinping Xu, Jianfeng Lin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Xiaorong.Lin@uga.edu (XL); xiaoxuxin@163.com (XX)

  Affiliations Center for Experimental Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Jianfeng Lin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xinping Xu, Jianfeng Lin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5202-6304

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• Youbao Zhao,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Elyssa Kirkman,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Yee-Seul So,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

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• Yong-Sun Bahn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

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• Xiaorong Lin

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Xiaorong.Lin@uga.edu (XL); xiaoxuxin@163.com (XX)

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3390-8387

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