Candida Albicans Alpha Factor
Product Code: CS3889

Gly-Phe-Arg-Leu-Thr-Asn-Phe-Gly-Tyr-Phe-Glu-Pro-Gly

MW: 1504.63
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Longterm storage temperature: -20 C

This peptide is representing the mature α-factor, the mating pheromone in Candida albicans, the most common fungal pathogen in humans responsible for a wide variety of mucosal and systemic infection. The ability of this organism to undergo sexual mating was discovered recently.

Literature:
Panwar, S. et al. Eukaryot. Cell. 2, 1350 (2003)
Janiak, A. et al. Fungal Genet. Biol. 42, 328 (2005).