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Calcineurin Is Essential for Virulence in Candida albicans
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Calcineurin is a conserved Ca 2+ -calmodulin-activated, serine/threonine-specific protein phosphatase that regulates a variety of physiological processes, e.g., cell cycle progression, polarized growth, and adaptation to salt and alkaline pH stresses. In the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans , calcineurin is also essential for growth at 37°C and virulence. To investigate whether calcineurin plays a role in the virulence of Candida albicans , the major fungal pathogen of humans, we constructed C. albicans mutants in which both alleles of the CMP1 gene, encoding the calcineurin catalytic subunit, were deleted. The C. albicans Δ cmp1 mutants displayed hypersensitivity to elevated Na + , Li + , and Mn 2+ concentrations and to alkaline pH, phenotypes that have been described after calcineurin inactivation in the related yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae . Unlike S. cerevisiae calcineurin mutants, which exhibit reduced susceptibility to high Ca 2+ concentrations, growth of C. albicans was inhibited in the presence of 300 mM CaCl 2 after the deletion of CMP1 , demonstrating that there are also differences in calcineurin-mediated cellular responses between these two yeast species. In contrast to C. neoformans , inactivation of calcineurin did not cause temperature sensitivity in C. albicans . In addition, hyphal growth, an important virulence attribute of C. albicans , was not impaired in the Δ cmp1 mutants under a variety of inducing conditions. Nevertheless, the virulence of the mutants was strongly attenuated in a mouse model of systemic candidiasis, demonstrating that calcineurin signaling is essential for virulence in C. albicans .
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“For example, the observed C. glabrata Δcnb1 strain phenotype, which is characterized by an increased susceptibility to azoles and cell wall-damaging agents as well as decreased virulence, is consistent with previous findings for other pathogenic fungi, such as C. albicans (2-4, 27), C. neoformans (11, 18, 21), and A. fumigatus (9, 30).”
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“Also these mutants show hypersensitivity to agents causing cell wall damage or perturbing cell membrane integrity including some antifungals.”
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“Calcineurin has been shown to be essential for C. albicans survival in serum and virulence in a murine model of infection, but the molecular mechanisms involved are still unknown (Blankenship et al. 2003;Bader et al. 2003;Sanglard et al. 2003).”
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“C. albicans mutants lacking either one of the calcineurin subunits are viable but exhibit increased sensitivity to ionic stress conditions (Cruz et al. 2002;Sanglard et al. 2003;Bader et al. 2003).”
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“The C. albicans cna1/cna1 and cmp1/cmp1 strains, having deleted the calcineurin catalytic subunit, exhibit increased susceptibility to alkaline cation toxicity (Sanglard et al. 2003;Bader et al. 2003).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bader, T., Bodendorfer, B., Schröppel, K., & Morschhäuser, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Würzburg (DE)
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (DE)
- Institut für Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Universität Erlangen, D-91054 Erlangen
- Institut für Molekulare Infektionsbiologie, Universität Würzburg, D-97070 Würzburg
- Venue
- Infection and Immunity
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology
- Published
- 2003-09
- Volume
- 71
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 5344-5354
- ISSN
- 0019-9567 (ISSN-L)
- 1098-5522
- PMC
- PMC187310
- OpenAlex
- W2149198831
- Cited by
- 121
- References
- 52
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- FWCI
- 2.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Infection and Immunity (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Bayerische Forschungsstiftung
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Fungal and yeast genetics research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Fungal Infections and Studies
- Keywords
- calcineurin, Candida albicans, virulence, systemic candidiasis, hyphal growth, cation sensitivity, temperature sensitivity, protein phosphatase, mouse model, Cryptococcus neoformans
- MeSH terms
- Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Base Sequence, Candida albicans, Candidiasis, DNA, Fungal, Female, Genes, Fungal, Humans, Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Molecular Sequence Data, Virulence, Gene Deletion, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, Calcineurin, Protein Subunits, Mice
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