CBB Faculty Publications

Recent Publications

Wu, W., Pujol, C., Lockhart, S.R. and Soll, D.R. 2005. Mechanisms of mating type homozygosis in C. albicans. Genetics, 169: 1311-1327

Oh, S.-H., Cheng, G., Nuessen, J., Jajko, R., Yeater, K., Zhao, X., Pujol, C., Soll, D.R. and Hoyer, L.L. 2005. Clade specificity of Candida albicansALS3 alleles and functional specificity of Als3p proteins discriminated by the number of copies of the tandem repeat sequence in the central domain.  Microbiology, 151: 673 - 681.

Stepanovic, V., Wessels, D., Loomis, W. F. and Soll, D.R. 2005. Adenylyl cyclase plays an intracellular role in the suppression of lateral pseudopod formation during Dictyostelium chemotaxis.  Euk. Cell 4: 775-786.

Heid, P. J., Geiger, J., Wessels, D., Voss, E. and Soll, D.R. 2005. Computer-assisted analysis of filopod formation and the role of myosin II heavy chain phosphorylation in Dictyostelium. J. Cell Science.  118: 2225-2237.

Lockhart, S.R., Pujol, C. and Soll, D.R. 2005. Deoxyribonucleic Acid Fingerprinting Methods for Candida Species. Methods in Molecular Medicine. 118: 15-26.

Dodgson, A. R., Pujol, C., Pfaller, M. A., Denning, D. W. and Soll, D.R. 2005. Evidence for Recombination in Candida glabrata. Fungal Genetics and Biology.  42: 233-243.

Lockhart, S. R., Wu, W., Radke, J. B. and Soll, D.R. 2005. Increased virulence and competitive advantage of a/ over a/a or / offspring conserves the mating system of Candida albicans. Genetics, 169: 1311-1327.

Bosgraaf, L., Waijer, A., Engel, R., Visser, A. J. W. G., Wessels, D., Soll, D.R. and van Haastert, P. J. M. 2005. The two RasGEF containing proteins GbpC and GbpD have opposite effects on cell polarity in Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Cell Sci, 18: 1899-1910.

Pujol, C., Dodgson, A. and Soll, D.R. 2005. Population genetics of ascomycetes pathogenic to humans and animals. In: Evolutionary Genetics of Fungi. (ed. Xu, J.-P.). Horizon Scientific Press, Norfolk, UK. pp 149-188.

Soll, D.R. 2005. The mating type locus and mating of C. albicans and C. glabrata. In: Molecular Principles of Fungal Pathogenesis (ed. Heitman, J., Filler, S. Mitchell, A.) ASM Press, Washington, D.C. In press.

Dailey, M., Manders, E., Soll, D.R. and Terasaki, M. 2005. Confocal microscopy of live cells. In: Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, 3 rd Ed. (ed. Pawley, J.) Plenum, New York. In press.

Zhao R., Wu, W., Lockhart, S. R. and Soll, D.R. 2005. Gene expression, saturation phase, G1 and mating competency in Candida albicans opaque cells. Euk. Cell., 4: 1175-1190.

Srikantha, T., Zhao, R., Daniels, K., Radke, J. and Soll, D.R. 2005. Phenotypic switching in C. glabrata accompanied by changes in expression of genes with deduced functions in copper detoxification and stress. Euk. Cell, 4: 1434-1445.

Blignaut, E., Molepo, J., Pujol, C., Soll, D.R. and Pfaller M. A. (2005). Clade-related ampotericin B resistance among South African Candida albicans isolates. Diag. Microbiol. Infect. Dis., 53: 29-31.

Wessels, D., Kuhl, S., Soll, D.R. 2005. Application of 2D and 3D DIAS to Motion Analysis of Live Cells in Transmission and Confocal Microcopy Imaging. In: Methods in Molecular Biology.  In press.

Soll, D.R. , Lockhart, S.R. and Pujol, C. 2005. Laboratory procedures for the epidemiological analysis of microorganisms.  In "Manual of Clinical Microbiology  9 th Edition" (eds.P.R. Murray, E.J. Baron, M.A. Pfaller, F.C. Tenvver, R.H. Yoken).  ASM Press, Washington, D.C. in press.

Wessels, D., Srikantha, T., Kuhl, S., Aravimd, L. and Soll, D.R. 2005. The Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome gene encodes an RNA-binding protein that localizes to the pseudopod of Dictyostelium amoebae during chemotaxis.  J. Cell Science, in press.

Daniels, K. J., Srikantha, T., Lockhart, S. R., Pujol, C. and Soll, D.R. 2005. Do mating-competent opaque cells signal mating-incompetent white cells to form biofilms to facilitate mating in Candida albicans? Under revision.

Soll, D.R. , Voss, E., Wessels, D. and Kuhl, S, 2005. Computer-Assisted Systems for Dynamic 3D Reconstruction and Motion Analysis of Living Cells.  In: Cell Motility   (Shorte, S., ed).  Springer Verlag, Germany.  In press.

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