Nutritional factors determine germ tube formation in Candida albicans.
Following a short (3 h) period of carbon starvation, exponential phase yeast cells of Candida albicans rapidly (T50 45 min) formed germ tubes in a glucose/ammonium ion solution. The presence of both a sugar (glucose, sucrose or galactose) and a nitrogen source (ammonium ion or an amino acid metabolized via glutamate) was critical for morphogenesis.
D000641:Ammonia / Q000378:metabolism; D002176:Candida albicans / Q000502:physiology*; D003470:Culture Media; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D009024:Morphogenesis; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D013217:Starvation
D003470:Culture Media; D000641:Ammonia; D005947:Glucose