Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Coordinated host-pathogen transcriptional dynamics revealed using sorted subpopulations and single macrophages infected with Candida albicans

  • José F. Muñoz,
  • Toni Delorey,
  • Christopher B. Ford,
  • Bi Yu Li,
  • Dawn A. Thompson,
  • Reeta P. Rao,
  • Christina A. Cuomo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09599-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The outcomes of the interactions between individual host cells and pathogens are heterogeneous. Here, the authors assess transcriptional variability in both host and pathogen during infection of macrophages with the fungus Candida albicans, using sorted subpopulations and single macrophages.