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Adhesins in Candida glabrata

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Timmermans, Bea, De Las Peñas, Alejandro, Castaño, Irene, Van Dijck, Patrick·2018·Journal of Fungi

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The human fungal pathogen Candida glabrata is causing more and more problems in hospitals, as this species shows an intrinsic antifungal drug resistance or rapidly becomes resistant when challenged with antifungals. C. glabrata only grows in the yeast form, so it is lacking a yeast-to-hyphae switch, which is one of the main virulence factors of C. albicans. An important virulence factor of C. glabrata is its capacity to strongly adhere to many different substrates. To achieve this, C. glabrata expresses a large number of adhesin-encoding genes and genome comparisons with closely related species, including the non-pathogenic S. cerevisiae, which revealed a correlation between the number of adhesin-encoding genes and pathogenicity. The adhesins are involved in the first steps during an infection; they are the first point of contact with the host. For several of these adhesins, their importance in adherence to different substrates and subsequent biofilm formation was demonstrated in vitro or in vivo. In this review, we provide an overview of the role of C. glabrata adhesins during adhesion and biofilm formation both, under in vitro and in vivo conditions.

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  • Invasive candidiasis due to C. glabrata causes substantial morbidity and mortality of approximately 40-60%, perhaps due to inherent low susceptibility to azoles.

    “Invasive candidiasis due to C. glabrata causes substantial morbidity and mortality of approximately 40–60%, perhaps due to the inherent low susceptibility of C. glabrata to the most commonly used azoles [3].”
  • A significant virulence factor of C. glabrata is its ability to adhere firmly to many different substrates.

    “A significant virulence factor of C. glabrata is its ability to adhere firmly to many different substrates [3].”

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Authors
Timmermans, B., De Las Peñas, A., Castaño, I., & Van Dijck, P.
Affiliations
  • VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology (BE)
  • IPICYT, División de Biología Molecular, Camino a la Presa San José 2055, C.P., San Luis Potosí 78216 San Luis Potosí, Mexico
  • Institute for Scientific and Technological Research (MX)
  • KU Leuven, Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Kasteelpark Arenberg 31 bus 2438, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
Venue
Journal of Fungi
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2018-05-20
Volume
4
Issue
2
Pages
60
ISSN
2309-608X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2803879256
Cited by
109
References
82
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 3
FWCI
1.43
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Fungi (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Lirias (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (VS.036.14N)
  • Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (21669)
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 glabrata, adhesins, fungal adhesion, biofilm formation, virulence factors, antifungal resistance, pathogenicity, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, host-pathogen interaction

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