A conserved fungal hub protein involved in adhesion and drug resistance in the human pathogen Candida albicans

Dr. Jean-Luc Parrou (LISBP, Toulouse) for vector YEplac195 PGK/CYC1 and Gregory Da Costa (INRA, Jouy-en-Josas) for technical help. SZ is an Institut Pasteur International Network Affiliate Program Fellow (Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Institut Pasteur, Paris) and has also been supported by grants from the European commission (FinSysB PITN-GA-2008-214004), the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (KANJI, ANR-08-MIE- 033-01) and the French Government’s Investissement d’Avenir program (Institut de Recherche Technologique BIOASTER, ANR-10-AIRT-03) to Chd’E. HMY acknowledges the FEBS society and the organizers of the Human Fungal Pathogen Schools 2015 and 2017 for a great introduction to C. albicans and other human fungal pathogens, as well as Formation permanente of the Centre INRA Toulouse Occitanie for financing her attendance to these researcher schools. HMY is forever grateful to Frans M. Klis for his kindness throughout the years and his great advice to “Start working on C. albicans”.Peer reviewedPostprin