PP Week 5

Candida albicans are fungal pathogens that infect humans. It grows in various forms either in a yeast form or a pseudohypae form. The change in conformation of Candida albicans is based on what cell type it originally is. The bacteria can be unicellular, or multicellular to determine the fate of shape. Candida albicans are harmless in general, but can lead to diseases when they over grow. Candida albicans are found mostly in patients with HIV, transplant recipients, and chemotherapy patients. The morphology of Candida albicans depend on the environment they are placed. Temperature, pH, salt concentration are all factors that potentially influence the appearance of Candida albicans. Through a method called transition, Candida albicans change their morphology. Unlike Eukaryotic cell, where gene regulation is the key factor of determinate cell, bacterial cells have a high plasticity to the environment they are in.