Hydrolytic enzymes as virulence factors of Candida albicans

@article{Schaller2005HydrolyticEA,
  title={Hydrolytic enzymes as virulence factors of Candida albicans},
  author={Martin Schaller and Claudia Borelli and Hans Christian Korting and Bernhard Hube},
  journal={Mycoses},
  year={2005},
  volume={48}
}
Candida albicans is a facultative pathogenic micro‐organism that has developed several virulence traits enabling invasion of host tissues and avoidance of host defence mechanisms. Virulence factors that contribute to this process are the hydrolytic enzymes. Most of them are extracellularly secreted by the fungus. The most discussed hydrolytic enzymes produced by C. albicans are secreted aspartic proteinases (Saps). The role of these Saps for C. albicans infections was carefully evaluated in… 
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