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Microarray and Molecular Analyses of the Azole Resistance Mechanism in Candida glabrata Oropharyngeal Isolates

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Tsai, Huei-Fung, Sammons, Lindsay R., Zhang, Xiaozhen, Suffis, Sara D., Su, Qin, Myers, Timothy G., Marr, Kieren A., Bennett, John E.·2010·Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Abstract

DNA microarrays were used to analyze Candida glabrata oropharyngeal isolates from seven hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients whose isolates developed azole resistance while the recipients received fluconazole prophylaxis. Transcriptional profiling of the paired isolates revealed 19 genes upregulated in the majority of resistant isolates compared to their paired susceptible isolates. All seven resistant isolates had greater than 2-fold upregulation of C. glabrata PDR1 (CgPDR1), a master transcriptional regulator of the pleiotropic drug resistance (PDR) network, and all seven resistant isolates showed upregulation of known CgPDR1 target genes. The altered transcriptome can be explained in part by the observation that all seven resistant isolates had acquired a single nonsynonymous mutation in their CgPDR1 open reading frame. Four mutations occurred in the regulatory domain (L280P, L344S, G348A, and S391L) and one in the activation domain (G943S), while two mutations (N764I and R772I) occurred in an undefined region. Association of azole resistance and the CgPDR1 mutations was investigated in the same genetic background by introducing the CgPDR1 sequences from one sensitive isolate and five resistant isolates into a laboratory azole-hypersusceptible strain (Cgpdr1 strain) via integrative transformation. The Cgpdr1 strain was restored to wild-type fluconazole susceptibility when transformed with CgPDR1 from the susceptible isolate but became resistant when transformed with CgPDR1 from the resistant isolates. However, despite the identical genetic backgrounds, upregulation of CgPDR1 and CgPDR1 target genes varied between the five transformants, independent of the domain locations in which the mutations occurred. In summary, gain-of-function mutations in CgPDR1 contributed to the clinical azole resistance, but different mutations had various degrees of impact on the CgPDR1 target genes.

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  • The overlap between CandidaMine variants and two datasets of previously described drug resistance mutations (SENTRY database and PDR1 mutations from the literature) was low, comparable to that found in this work.

    “In order to test this we calculated the overlap between CandidaMine variants and two datasets of previously described drug resistance-mutations: the SENTRY database6 and a set of described PDR1 mutations from the literature.71, 72, 73 This yielded low overlaps as well, comparable to those found in our work (Figure S5A).”

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Authors
Tsai, H.-F., Sammons, L. R., Zhang, X., Suffis, S. D., Su, Q., Myers, T. G., Marr, K. A., & Bennett, J. E.
Affiliations
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
Venue
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Published
2010-08
Volume
54
Issue
8
Pages
3308-3317
ISSN
  • 0066-4804 (ISSN-L)
  • 1098-6596
OpenAlex
W2001393613
Cited by
80
References
31
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FWCI
3.93
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Fungal Plant Pathogen Control
Keywords
Candida glabrata, azole resistance, fluconazole resistance, PDR1, pleiotropic drug resistance, gene expression profiling, oropharyngeal candidiasis, hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients, fluconazole prophylaxis, gain-of-function mutations, transcription factors, drug resistance mechanisms
MeSH terms
Antifungal Agents, Azoles, Candidiasis, Oral, DNA, Fungal, Fungal Proteins, Humans, Microbial Sensitivity Tests, Molecular Sequence Data, Mutation, Oropharynx, Fluconazole, Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Gene Expression Profiling, Drug Resistance, Fungal, Candida glabrata

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