Albumin’s Dark Side: How a Common Blood Protein Can Turn Harmless Candida into a Dangerous Pathogen
Researchers at Leibniz-HKI discovered that human serum albumin can trigger Candida albicans—normally a harmless yeast—to adopt a new pathogenic strategy, producing the toxic lipid 13-HODE. Even lab strains deemed non-virulent became harmful, highlighting the importance of host-specific cues in fungal virulence and improving future infection models.
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