The Candida albicans antiporter gene CNH1 has a role in Na+ and H+ transport, salt tolerance, and morphogenesisThe GenBank accession number for the sequence reported in this work is AF128238. Soong, Tuck-Wah and Yong, Tan-Fong and Ramanan, Narendrakumar and Wang, Yue,, 146, 1035-1044 (2000), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-146-5-1035, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1350-0872, abstract= The isolation and functional characterization of a Candida albicans Na+/H+ antiporter gene, CNH1, is reported here. The gene encodes a protein of 840 amino acids that exhibits high levels of similarity in sequence, size, and structural and functional domains to a group of known Na+/H+ antiporters of fungi. The CNH1 gene is able to functionally complement the salt-sensitivity of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae ena1 nha1 mutant, and mutations of two conserved aspartate residues to asparagines in the putative Na+-binding site abolish this activity. Deletion of CNH1 results in retardation of growth and a highly elongated morphology in a significant fraction of cells under conditions that normally support yeast growth. These results indicate that CNH1 has a role in Na+ and H+ transport, salt-tolerance, and morphogenesis., language=, type=