The roles of zinc and copper sensing in fungal pathogenesis

Open Access funded by Wellcome Trust Acknowledgements ERB is funded by the BBSRC (BB/M014525/1). DW is supported by a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society (Grant Number 102549/Z/13/Z). We additionally acknowledge the MRC and University of Aberdeen for funding (MR/N006364/1) and the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award for Medical Mycology and Fungal Immunology (097377/Z/11/Z). Finally, we acknowledge FungiDB and the Candida Genome Database [ 56 and 57].

Host-Imposed Copper Poisoning Impacts Fungal Micronutrient Acquisition during Systemic Candida albicans Infections

This work was supported by the European Research Council (http://erc.europa.eu/: STRIFE Advanced Grant ERC-2009-AdG-249793). A.J.P.B. was also supported by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Research Council (www.bbsrc.ac.uk: Research Grants BB/F00513X/1, BB/K017365/1), the UK Medical Research Council (www.mrc.ac.uk: Programme Grant MR/M026663/1; Centre Grant MR/ N006364/1), and the Wellcome Trust (www.wellcome.ac.uk: Strategic Award 097377)

Medical mycology and fungal immunology : new research perspectives addressing a major world health challenge

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