Isolation of a Candida albicans mutant with reduced content of cell wall mannan and deficient mannan phosphorylation.

A rough-colony mutant of Candida albicans was isolated after ultraviolet mutagenesis. The mutant contained approximately half the normal amount of the cell wall mannan, the acetolysis pattern of which was indistinguishable from that of the wild-type counterpart. However, the extent of phosphorylation in the mutant mannan was about 12% of the value for wild type.