found in Table 1. All C. albicans strains in this study are derived from strain BWP17 and
were created using a lithium acetate-based transformation protocol (31). All strains used in
growth and virulence studies were prototrophic for arginine and histidine and contained the
URA3 gene at its native locus (32). Strain construction is described in the supplemental
material and important features of plasmids and oligonucleotides are found in Tables S1 …