Invasion of Cryptococcus neoformans into Human Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells Is Mediated through the Lipid Rafts-Endocytic Pathway via the Dual Specificity Tyrosine Phosphorylation-regulated Kinase 3 (DYRK3)

Huang, Sheng-He; Long, Min; Wu, Chun-Hua; Kwon-Chung, Kyung J.; Chang, Yun C.; Chi, Feng; Lee, Susan; Jong, Ambrose

doi:10.1074/jbc.m111.219378

Invasion of Cryptococcus neoformans into Human Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells Is Mediated through the Lipid Rafts-Endocytic Pathway via the Dual Specificity Tyrosine Phosphorylation-regulated Kinase 3 (DYRK3)

Cryptococcus neoformans is a neurotropic fungal pathogen, which provokes the onset of devastating meningoencephalitis. We used human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBMEC) as the in vitro model to investigate how C. neoformans traverses across the blood-brain barrier. In this study, we pre…