Killing of Torulopsis Glabrata by Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Killer Factor

Overview

Journal Antimicrob Agents Chemother

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Pharmacology

Date 1976 Feb 1

PMID 773297

Citations 13

Authors

H Bussey

N Skipper

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Abstract

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae killer factor glycoproteins killed the pathogen Torulopsis glabrata by a mechanism involving membrane damage. Some other yeast species were unaffected by these glycoprotein toxins.

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