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Stealth strategies of Candida albicans to evade host immunity.

Yebo GuXin-Ming Jia
Published in: Cell host & microbe (2024)
During opportunistic pathogenic episodes, Candida albicans employs classical strategies such as the yeast-to-hyphae transition and immunogenic masking. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Luo et al. unveil that the effector protein Cmi1 can be translocated into host cells and targets TBK1, thereby negatively regulating the host's antifungal immune responses.
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