ECE1 and irritable bowel syndrome: Pilot investigations in a limited set of fecal healthy volunteer and IBS patient-derived C. albicans strains showed that yeast-to-hyphae transition could be induced in all strains, whereas simultaneous ECE1 (the gene encoding candidalysin) induction rates greatly differed.15 The IBS C. albicans strains were isolated from hyper- and normosensitive patients.