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Innate immune responses against the fungal pathogen Candida auris

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Wang, Yuanyuan, Zou, Yun, Chen, Xiaoqing, Li, Hao, Yin, Zhe, Zhang, Baocai, Xu, Yongbin, Zhang, Yiquan +19 more·2022·Nature Communications

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Candida auris is a multidrug-resistant human fungal pathogen responsible for nosocomial outbreaks worldwide. Although considerable progress has increased our understanding of the biological and clinical aspects of C. auris, its interaction with the host immune system is only now beginning to be investigated in-depth. Here, we compare the innate immune responses induced by C. auris BJCA001 and Candida albicans SC5314 in vitro and in vivo. Our results indicate that C. auris BJCA001 appears to be less immunoinflammatory than C. albicans SC5314, and this differential response correlates with structural features of the cell wall.

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  • C. auris differentially stimulates cytokine production in peripheral blood mononuclear cells compared to C. albicans.

    “C. auris differentially stimulates cytokine production in peripheral blood mononuclear cells, decreases phagocytosis by neutrophils, and has a more potent binding to IgG than C. albicans [13–15].”

    From The Emerging Fungal Pathogen Candida auris Induces IFNγ to Colonize the Skin (2025) · cites this paper as [13]

    The Results section reports that some C. auris strains elicited more cytokine production from human PBMCs than C. albicans, with higher TNF-α for all tested C. auris strains only at high MOI. It also says that most comparisons showed the same pattern of increased responsiveness to either species, so the unqualified claim overstates how consistently their effects differed. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • Differences in mannan composition between C. auris and C. albicans contribute to decreased innate immune recognition, phagocytic activity, and clearance of C. auris in human neutrophils.

    “Recent evidence indicates that differences in mannan composition between C. auris and C. albicans contribute to decreased innate immune recognition, phagocytic activity, and clearance of C. auris in human neutrophils (13, 27, 28).”

    From Differential skin immune responses in mice intradermally infected with <i>Candida auris</i> and <i>Candida albicans</i> (2023) · cites this paper as [13]

    The Results report that C. auris was taken up by human and mouse neutrophils at lower rates than C. albicans, while the cell-wall comparison links distinct mannan structure to reduced innate immune recognition. The paper’s proposed mannan mechanism focuses on macrophages; it does not directly establish that the between-species mannan difference causes reduced phagocytosis or clearance by human neutrophils. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • C. auris differentially stimulates cytokine production in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and has a more potent binding to IgG than C. albicans.

    “C. auris differentially stimulates cytokine production in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and has a more potent binding to IgG than C. albicans [14, 15].”

    From Single-cell transcriptomics unveils skin cell specific antifungal immune responses and IL-1Ra- IL-1R immune evasion strategies of emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris (2024) · cites this paper as [14]

    The Results section on PBMC responses reports that C. auris sometimes elicited more cytokine production than C. albicans, although most tests showed similar responses. Our copy does not establish stronger IgG binding by C. auris than by C. albicans; IgG binding appears in the title of a work listed in the References, without that comparison. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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  • In recent studies on the host transcriptome of C. auris in human PBMCs and mouse BMDMs, the NOD-like receptor signaling pathway was only enriched in C. auris infection but not in C. albicans infection.

    “In the recent studies on the host transcriptome of C. auris in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and mouse BMDMs, the NOD-like receptor signaling pathway was only enriched in the C. auris infection but not in C. albicans infection [13, 14]”

    From Single-cell transcriptomics unveils skin cell specific antifungal immune responses and IL-1Ra- IL-1R immune evasion strategies of emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris (2024) · cites this paper as [14]

    The Results section on in vitro cell culture reports RNA-seq and pathway-enrichment analysis in mouse BMDMs challenged with C. auris or C. albicans. It does not report that NOD-like receptor signaling was enriched only with C. auris; the pathways it identifies as specific to one infection are instead associated with C. albicans. The paper also examines human PBMC cytokine production, but the cited passages do not establish the claimed PBMC transcriptome finding. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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  • Yeast, filamentous, and aggregative forms of C. auris elicit distinct magnitudes of Th17 activation, likely reflecting differences in cell wall composition and surface antigen exposure.

    “Collectively, yeast, filamentous, and aggregative forms of C. auris elicit distinct magnitudes of Th17 activation, likely reflecting differences in cell wall composition and surface antigen exposure (Fig 4) [87,113].”

    From Host–Candida auris interactions in the skin (2026) · cites this paper as [113]

    The Introduction and cell-wall Results section link differences in C. auris cell-wall structure and antigen exposure to innate immune recognition. But the morphology Results section reports no difference in the measured cytokine responses among yeast, filamentation-competent yeast, and filamentous cells (Fig. 4a); it does not assess aggregative forms or Th17 activation. The claimed differences in Th17 activation among the three forms are therefore not supported by this paper. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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Wang, Y., Zou, Y., Chen, X., Li, H., Yin, Z., Zhang, B., Xu, Y., Zhang, Y., Zhang, R., Huang, X., Yang, W., Xu, C., Jiang, T., Tang, Q., Zhou, Z., Ji, Y., Liu, Y., Hu, L., Zhou, J., Zhou, Y., Zhao, J., Liu, N., Huang, G., Chang, H., Fang, W., Chen, C., & Zhou, D.
Affiliations
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN)
  • Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology (CN)
  • Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CN)
  • Jiangnan University (CN)
  • Shanghai University (CN)
  • Tongji University (CN)
  • Gannan Medical University (CN)
  • Guangxi Academy of Sciences (CN)
  • Fudan University (CN)
Corresponding author
  • Chen, Changbin
  • Zhou, Dongsheng
Venue
Nature Communications
Published
2022-06-21
Volume
13
Issue
1
Pages
3553-3553
ISSN
2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4283321860
Cited by
107
References
70
Citations by year
2026: 26 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 4
FWCI
9.90
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (2019SHZDZX02, 20ZR1463800)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (31600119, BM2020019, 2020YFA0907200, 2019SHZDZX02, 32070146, 32170195, 31870141)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (153831KYSB20170043, KGFZD-135-19-11)
  • Government of Jiangsu Province
  • Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (31600119)
  • State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity
  • Youth Innovation Promotion Association
  • Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Fungal Infections and Studies
Keywords
Candida auris, innate immunity, Candida albicans, fungal pathogen-host interaction, immune inflammation, cell wall structure, multidrug resistance, hospital outbreak
MeSH terms
Candida auris, Antifungal Agents, Candida, Candida albicans, Candidiasis, Humans, Immunity, Innate, Microbial Sensitivity Tests

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