Insight into different environmental niches adaptation and allergenicity from the Cladosporium sphaerospermum genome, a common human allergy-eliciting Dothideomycetes

• Main Authors: Yew, S.M., Chan, C.L., Ngeow, Y.F., Toh, Y.F., Na, S.L., Lee, K.W., Hoh, C.C., Yee, W.Y., Ng, K.P., Kuan, C.S.
• Format: Article
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/18777/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep27008
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

Cladosporium sphaerospermum, a dematiaceous saprophytic fungus commonly found in diverse environments, has been reported to cause allergy and other occasional diseases in humans. However, its basic biology and genetic information are largely unexplored. A clinical isolate C. sphaerospermum genome, U...