https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/379626
標題: | Calcineurin governs thermotolerance and virulence of cryptococcus gattii | 作者: | YING-LIEN CHEN Lehman, V.N. Lewit, Y. Averette, A.F. Heitman, J. |
關鍵字: | Capsule; Cation homeostasis; Cyclosporin A; FK506; Fluconazole tolerance; Melanin; Pathogenicity; Temperature sensitivity | 公開日期: | 2013 | 卷: | 3 | 期: | 3 | 起(迄)頁: | 527-539 | 來源出版物: | G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics | 摘要: | The pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus gattii, which is causing an outbreak in the Pacific Northwest region of North America, causes life-threatening pulmonary infections and meningoencephalitis in healthy individuals, unlike Cryptococcus neoformans, which commonly infects immunocompromised patients. In addition to a greater predilection for C. gattii to infect healthy hosts, the C. gattii genome sequence project revealed extensive chromosomal rearrangements compared with C. neoformans, showing genomic differences between the two Cryptococcus species. We investigated the roles of C. gattii calcineurin in three molecular types: VGIIa (R265), VGIIb (R272), and VGI (WM276). We found that calcineurin exhibits a differential requirement for growth on solid medium at 37°, as calcineurin mutants generated from R265 were more thermotolerant than mutants from R272 and WM276. We demonstrated that tolerance to calcineurin inhibitors (FK506, CsA) at 37° is linked with the VGIIa molecular type. The calcineurin mutants from the R272 background showed the most extensive growth and morphological defects (multivesicle and larger ring-like cells), as well as increased fluconazole susceptibility. Our cellular architecture examination showed that C. gattii and C. neoformans calcineurin mutants exhibit plasma membrane disruptions. Calcineurin in the C. gattii VGII molecular type plays a greater role in controlling cation homeostasis compared with that in C. gattii VGI and C. neoformans H99. Importantly, we demonstrate that C. gattii calcineurin is essential for virulence in a murine inhalation model, supporting C. gattii calcineurin as an attractive antifungal drug target. ? 2013 Chen et al. |
URI: | http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84883250066&partnerID=MN8TOARS http://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/379626 |
DOI: | 10.1534/g3.112.004242 | SDG/關鍵字: | antifungal agent; calcineurin; cyclosporin A; fluconazole; melanin; tacrolimus; adaptation; animal; animal experiment; antifungal activity; article; biolistic transformation; brain; capsule; cation homeostasis; cell membrane; comparative study; Cryptococcus gattii; Cryptococcus neoformans; culture medium; drug effect; drug tolerance; enzyme active site; female; fluconazole tolerance; fungal gene; fungal virulence; fungus growth; gene deletion; gene mutation; genetic complementation; genetics; heat tolerance; human; immunocompromised patient; larva; lung; lung infection; melanogenesis; meningoencephalitis; metabolism; microbiology; moth; mouse; nonhuman; North America; pathogenicity; pathology; stress; suppressor gene; temperature sensitivity; temperature stress; Cryptococcus gattii; Filobasidiella neoformans; Murinae |
顯示於: | 植物病理與微生物學系 |
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