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Montana State University researchers find gene that regulates mold’s resistance to drugs

December 1, 2008 /

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Montana State University scientists concerned about lethal mold infections have found a gene that regulates the mold’s resistance to drugs.

The gene, called srbA, allows molds to thrive during infections even when inflammation reduces its oxygen supply, said Robert Cramer http://vmb.montana.edu/faculty/cramer/index.htm , senior author of a paper published in the Nov. 7 issue of PloS Pathogens. When the gene is removed, the mold becomes much more vulnerable to lack of oxygen and can no longer grow to cause disease.

By Evelyn Boswell, MSU News Service

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