Characterization and functional analysis of zinc trafficking in the human fungal pathogen .

The zinc restriction and zinc toxicity are part of host defence, called nutritional immunity. The crucial role of zinc homeostasis in microbial survival within a host is established, but little is known about these processes in the opportunistic human fungal pathogen Our predictions suggested the presence of at least six potential zinc transporters (ZnTs) in -orthologues of , and -but an orthologue of zincophore was not found. In addition, we detected a species-specific gene expansion of the novel ZnT as we identified three orthologue genes in the genome of .