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Inhibitory Effect of Sophorolipid on Candida albicans Biofilm Formation
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and Hyphal Growth
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Running Title: Effect of Sophorolipid on Candida albicans Biofilm
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Farazul Haque1#, Md. Alfatah2#, K. Ganesan2* & Mani Shankar Bhattacharyya1*
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Biochemical Engineering Research & Process Development Center (BERPDC), 2Yeast
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Molecular Biology Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39-A,
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Chandigarh-160 036, India.
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Joint first authors
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Correspondence should be addressed to: K.G., Phone: +91-172-6665305; Fax: +91-172-
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FIG S1 Effect of sophorolipid on (A) C. glabrata, (B) C. tropicalis, (C) C. lusitaniae biofilm
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formation. Readings of colorimetric XTT reduction assay at 492 nm are expressed in terms of
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% metabolic activity of control. Results represent the average of three independent
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experiments ± SD. *p