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Ziyan Xu

Duke Medical CenterORCID 0000-0002-2986-8466Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:C. elegans· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1

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MicrobiologyPLoS GeneticsPeer-reviewedMar 12, 2026

Homeodomain protein Sxi1α independently controls cell-cell fusion and gene expression during sexual reproduction in Cryptococcus deneoformans

Jun Huang, A. Lehmann, Patricia P Peterson…·Joseph Heitman

This study identifies Sxi1's inhibitory role in unisexual cell fusion and distinct transcriptional regulation from Sxi2a in Cryptococcus deneoformans.

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C. elegansproteomics

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