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Three Mating Type-Like Loci in Candida glabrata

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Srikantha, Thyagarajan, Lachke, Salil A., Soll, David R.·2003·Eukaryotic Cell

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Candida glabrata, the second most prevalent Candida species colonizing humans, possesses three mating type-like (MTL) loci (MTL1, MTL2, and MTL3). These loci contain pairs of MTL genes with their respective coding regions on complementary Crick and Watson DNA strands. Each pair of genes is separated by a shared intergenic promoter region, the same configuration found at the mating type loci of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Two of the MTL loci, MTL1 and MTL2, contain either the MTLa1/MTLa2 configuration or the MTLalpha1/MTLalpha2 configuration in different strains. All but one of the 38 tested C. glabrata strains were either aaalpha or aalphaalpha. One test strain was alphaalphaalpha. Based on the mating type genotype, the MTL genes at the MTL1 or MTL2 loci, and the size of the XbaI fragment harboring MTL1 or MTL2, four classes of C. glabrata strains (I, II, III, and IV) were distinguished. Northern analysis revealed that strains were either a-expressors or alpha-expressors and that expression always reflected the genotype of either the MTL1 or MTL2 locus, depending on the class. The expression pattern in each class, therefore, is similar to that observed in S. cerevisiae, which harbors two silent cassette loci, HMR and HML, and the expression locus MAT. High-frequency phenotypic switching between core phenotypes in an alpha-expressing, but not in an a-expressing, strain modulated the level of MTL expression, suggesting a possible relationship between core phenotypic switching and mating.

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  • C. glabrata has three mating type (MAT)-like loci, CgMTL1 (MAT), CgMTL2 (HMR) and CgMTL3 (HML), whose genomic configuration is similar to that of the S. cerevisiae MTL loci.

    “C. glabrata has three mating type (MAT)-like loci, CgMTL1 (MAT), CgMTL2 (HMR) and CgMTL3 (HML), whose genomic configuration is similar to that of the S. cerevisae MTL loci [74].”

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Authors
Srikantha, T., Lachke, S. A., & Soll, D. R.
Affiliations
University of Iowa (US)
Venue
Eukaryotic Cell
Published
2003-04
Volume
2
Issue
2
Pages
328-340
ISSN
  • 1535-9778 (ISSN-L)
  • 1535-9786
OpenAlex
W2002424030
Cited by
78
References
49
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2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 14 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 1
FWCI
2.07
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Eukaryotic Cell (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Francis Crick Institute
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (AI-2392)
  • National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (DE014219, R01DE014219)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
Keywords
Candida glabrata, mating-type locus, mating-type switching, silent mating-type loci, phenotypic switching
MeSH terms
Amino Acid Sequence, Base Sequence, Cell Division, Cells, Cultured, Fungal Proteins, Genes, Fungal, Genes, Switch, Genotype, Molecular Sequence Data, Phenotype, Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, Species Specificity, Transcription, Genetic, Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal, Genome, Fungal, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, Candida glabrata, Genes, Mating Type, Fungal

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