Candida albicans is the most common type of fungus to cause yeast infections. Sometimes, other types of candida fungus are to blame. Common treatments usually cure a Candida albicans infection. Yeast infections caused by other types of candida fungus can be more difficult to treat, and need more aggressive therapies.
The homeodomain is the part of the protein that attaches (binds) to specific regulatory regions of the target genes. Genes in the homeobox family are involved in a wide range of critical activities during development.n humans, the homeobox gene family contains an estimated 235 functional genes and 65 pseudogenes (structurally similar genes that do not provide instructions for making proteins).
Homeodomain proteins of the Paired class also achieve enchanced specificity by dimerization, but the situation in this case is rather different. Using random oligomer selection to define the preferred binding site for the homeodomain protein encoded by the paired gene.he exd gene has recently been cloned by Rauskolb et al. [9] , and, intriguingly, turns out to encode a homeodomain protein with some indications of having a particular sequence relationship to the yeast a1 gene product.