Yeast casein kinase 2 governs morphology, biofilm formation, cell wall integrity, and host cell damage of Candida albicans

• Sook-In Jung ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sook-In Jung, Natalie Rodriguez

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, South Korea

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• Natalie Rodriguez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sook-In Jung, Natalie Rodriguez

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Jihyun Irrizary,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Karl Liboro,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Thania Bogarin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Marlene Macias,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Edward Eivers,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Edith Porter,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Scott G. Filler,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

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• Hyunsook Park

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: hpark8@calstatela.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8065-1625

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